Changelog • liteformats

liteformats (development version)

Added liteformats::include_graphics() to embed local images as base64 data URIs in raw HTML that can be emitted directly from litedown code chunks. Added a bundled signature image to the cover letter starter (#20).

Fixed overly aggressive resume pagination that treated complete experiences and list-based sections as indivisible, leaving large gaps at page bottoms. Resume entries now fill the available page and continue across pages at normal paragraph and list boundaries while retaining compact list indentation (#8).

Simplified resume() and cover_letter() to four primary arguments. Secondary metadata, typography, pagination, and PDF controls now live in classed resume_options() and cover_letter_options() objects. The same internal option schema can be reused by future document formats, and the canonical YAML configuration is now checked for unknown names (#12).
Refactored opt-in Google Fonts loading to use bundled font metadata. Font family names now request the available weights and styles needed for regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic text, prefer variable weight and slant ranges, and omit unsupported combinations. Full CSS v2 URLs remain supported for custom axes and newer families. A maintainer script was added to refresh the catalog without Google API credentials (#10).
Matched resume section divider rules to LaTeX’s 0.4 TeX point rule thickness, using a scaled rule to avoid Chromium’s 1px minimum for CSS borders in PDF output (#21).

Qualified the namespaces in code examples of the README so they become self-contained. Removed configuration, typography, and automation details and redirect to the vignette to reduce duplication (#14).

CRAN release: 2026-08-05

Added resume() and cover_letter() formats for self-contained HTML and direct PDF output through a Chromium-based browser (#1).
Added use_resume() and use_cover_letter() starter documents based on reusable Markdown content and packaged HTML, CSS, and pages.js assets.
Added flexible controls for paper size, margins, spacing, link color, ligatures, font scaling, local font embedding, and opt-in Google Fonts.

Added testit coverage for starter creation, option handling, HTML rendering, font embedding, pagination, and PDF dispatch.

Added a README quick start and a litedown-built vignette covering formats, typography, ATS considerations, semantic resume entries, and Makefile automation.
Documented complete, matching HTML and PDF calls for both resume and cover letter starters.

Vendored the MIT-licensed pages.js runtime for offline builds and added a maintainer script that refreshes it from the upstream source archive.
Credited the author and copyright holder of the bundled pages.js assets in Authors@R, and documented template styling lessons for maintainers.