Create new examples and templates for pagedown

[emilyriederer]

The new pagedown package has huge promise to help expand adoption of RMarkdown for generating paged content without the barrier of setting up LaTex.

This package comes with a lot of great examples and templates. However, since it's still very new, there isn't the same availability of "in the wild" examples as people often use when setting up their own blogdowns, bookdowns, etc.

This project could work on:

• building cool pagedown examples using existing templates
• brainstorming and designing new templates

It would be particularly helpful for this project if group members had some knowledge of CSS.

The outcome could be either a nice repo of examples that would inspire future package users and/or a PR to pagedown. The pagedown repo does welcome contributions, particularly:

if you are familiar with CSS, we'd love to include your contributions of more creative and beautiful CSS stylesheets in this package. It is also very helpful if you don't know CSS but just tell us the creative and beautiful web pages you have seen, since other CSS experts may be able to port them into pagedown.

[emilyriederer]

Interested but don't know CSS? Here are a few good resources:

• https://learn.freecodecamp.org/ (<- interactive tutorial)
• https://www.w3schools.com/css/ (<- concise read / reference manual)

[SmithaShivakumar]

Can we build an APA template with pagedown package?

[RLesur]

@emilyriederer I am so glad you plan to develop new templates for pagedown!
I haven't yet had time to write down a guide for authoring new templates with pagedown.
If you are interested in, I can provide advice to you for starting.
cc @yihui

[emilyriederer]

@RLesur - wow! Thank you so much! I’m not 100% sure whether or not this will be an unconf project this weekend (depending on the group’s interest at large) but it’s definitely something I want to do either then or later.

If it’s not too much trouble for you, we would absolutely love any tips you can provide on how best to get started and make a high quality PR for pagedown. Thanks again so much for the offer!

[RLesur]

@emilyriederer Since I've planned to write a short guide to start a new pagedown template, I see this opportunity as a deadline for me (I often need short deadlines to be productive 😄 ). I will try to write something tomorrow. If your proposal is not an unconf project, this short guide will be useful anyway.