minidown

Create simple yet powerful html documents with lightweight CSS frameworks.

Installation

CRAN version

install.packages("minidown")

Development version

# remotes::install_github("atusy/minidown")
install.packages("minidown", repos = c('https://atusy.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Features

• Light weight CSS frameworks
  • sakura (default)
  • spcss
  • water
  • mini (archived)
  • and more in the future based on the list in Awesome CSS Frameworks
• Code folding
  • for source, output, message, warning, and error
• Tooltip
• Floating TOC
• Math with KaTeX
• HTML5
  • The Pandoc's HTML5 template is minimally modified by
    • removing math section to support KaTeX CDN even if self contained
    • wrapping body paragraphs by the <article> tag.
  • Output format is HTML4 as an exception if framework = "bootstrap".

Live Examples

• Official demo
  • https://minidown.atusy.net/
• Package vignettes
  • digest, littler, spdlog, and tidyCpp by @eddelbuettel

Philosophy

In the order of priority.

1. Simple and extensible developments
   • Use less external dependencies such as JavaScript.
   • Let Pandoc do things as much as possible
     • Not to reinvent the wheel
2. Light weight output results