Currently, there is not support for that...

Thanks for making this @dokato , it was great taht you took the initiative and starting thsi moving. How would you feel if I transferred the ownership of this over to satRdays core? I feel like by putting it there it would gain some visibility and increase the potential for reuse/refinement.

for now I have simply forked it https://github.com/satRdays/badgeR but this means that issues can't be raised and a few other little niggles that means it's not as good a solution.

Currently create_badge is an 'omni-function' in that is 'does it all'. There are various interfaces that can be broken out, and this could start with a built in tex file to the package which contains the default badge template. Being able to break this out might make it easier for the package to cover multiple different styles of badge, and to potentially maintain and modify the behaviour fo the template.

This work will begin with creating a standalone tex file in a suitable location in the package and then making sure that is sourced correctly into the function.

I think it would be better if we could change the default icon to the SatRday icon or something R based at least.
How do you feel about that @dokato?

Clearly we need some tests but I wonder if it requires some refactoring.

I wonder if it is possible/worthwhile to separate the creation of the temp_badge_code item from the creation of the Latex and perhaps from the generation of the PDF?

This might facilitate some previewing and facilitate some testing.

Maybe into the following functions:

• make_badge_code()
• preview_badge()
• render_badge_pdf()

Thoughts @dokato, @DaveParr?
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AFAIK we don't support pronouns on badges right now. I think that it would be nice to add this as an option. I imagine that it would be another text field that can theoretically have 'anything' put into it, though as an example values might be as follows (non-exhaustive):

• He/Him
• They/Them

Does anyone have any direct experience/ a good reference that might give us more numerous examples?

I don't know if this is possible but it would be useful, I think to add a preview option/function.
This would be useful for long names and where custom options are being used.
Is it possible to preview Latex in one of the RStudio windows?

Introduce an option for changing the text colour

• horizontal
• vertical
• blurred image in the background

We know there are quite a few dependencies for this package to get it to run. Where reasonable we should document an 'installation' process.

For ubuntu I've got this far:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
sudo apt-get install texinfo

At which point I get an error:

Error in tools::texi2dvi(temp_badge_code, pdf = TRUE, clean = TRUE) : 
  Running 'texi2dvi' on './badgeb414e40e438.tex' failed.
LaTeX errors:
! LaTeX Error: File `ticket.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

! Emergency stop.
<read *> 
         
l.4 \usepackage
               {graphicx}^^M
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! 

I try to determine if this CTAN package is in the system with: kpsewhich ticket.sty which gives no response, i.e. no package installed. Curiously when I run kpsewhich letter.sty I get: /home/davidparr/.TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/letter.sty which indicates the tinytex install that I had thought I had removed.

Eitherway, i need to work out how to install this missing package to make it run. Will update this as I make more progress.