Certain fonts don't work in RMarkdown

[bhaskarvk]

e.g. theme_hrbrmstr_an, I get the following warning

In grid.Call(L_textBounds, as.graphicsAnnot(x$label),  ... :
  font family 'ArialNarrow' not found in PostScript font database

I tried adding

library(extrafont)
loadfonts()

Output format is markdowntemplates::bulma

[hrbrmstr]

hrm. interesting issue. shld be "fun" debugging O_o

[bhaskarvk]

How is 'ArialNarrow' mapped to the actual font installed ?
Could it be because element_text expects family and face in two diff. arguments, while you're passing the font name in the family argument and leaving our the face argument ?

extrafont::fonttable() %>% 
  dplyr::filter(FamilyName=='Arial Narrow') %>% 
  dplyr::select(FullName, FamilyName, FontName)

                  FullName   FamilyName               FontName
1             Arial Narrow Arial Narrow            ArialNarrow
2        Arial Narrow Bold Arial Narrow       ArialNarrow-Bold
3 Arial Narrow Bold Italic Arial Narrow ArialNarrow-BoldItalic
4      Arial Narrow Italic Arial Narrow     ArialNarrow-Italic

hrbrmisc::theme_hrbrmstr_an
function (...) 
{
    theme_hrbrmstr(base_family = "ArialNarrow", plot_title_family = "ArialNarrow-Bold", 
        subtitle_family = "ArialNarrow-Italic", caption_family = "ArialNarrow", 
        ...)
}

[hrbrmstr]

Aye, try the new hrbrthemes pkg ;-)

the default is Arial Narrow but avoids the FontName shortcut in favor of explicit setting of base family and face.

I may have this in a local copy of hrbrmisc that also has more stuff in it that I'm not sharing ;-)