Possible IQSS theme improvements

[eddelbuettel]

In no particular order, and in comparison to the demo.tex-based demo.pdf of the LaTeX variant:

• Libertinus font requirement currently a hard constraint, might be nicer to make it soft ie warn but proceed rather than fail
• Title changed to not be on dark background, could make that a toggle in YAML header
• Table of content line and paragraph breaks look different
• Need to find a trick to do the \item[] placement in one of the examples
• Make the header.png file an option for the YAML header

[eddelbuettel]

For the record, got a first "bug report" over email where IQSS failed for someone ... who didn't read the README and did not have Libertinus installed.

[izahn]

Yes, I've also had people reporting the same issue. I'm working on making Libertinus optional now.

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[eddelbuettel]

I poked at tex.stackexchange.com to see if one could test "presence or absence of font" but it seems less than straightforward. Ideally we would go into a "yes ... but" mode also informing people that they should install the font.

[izahn]

There is code for checking for the availability of fonts in the metropolis theme. I'm trying to decide whether to copy it or just depend on the metropolis theme.

[eddelbuettel]

Oh, nice. I am sure we can borrow that with credit.

But when you say 'depend on the metropolis theme' you don't mean to switch whole-hog, right? I quite like Libertinus. But maybe Fira or others as fallbacks?

Over here (as opposed to the plain latex side) it is also easy to make fonts options in yaml header.