Option for grey box around key bullets in each section?

[carrieholt]

Is it possible to generate grey boxes around key bullets in each section, as is in Kronlund et al. 2021 CSAS Res Doc: https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/40998034.pdf

[seananderson]

Maybe the tcolorbox package would work? See the part that starts with \begin{tcolorbox}[sharp corners, boxrule=0.2mm] below.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]

\begin{tcolorbox}[sharp corners, boxrule=0.2mm]
\subsection*{Key Points:}

\begin{itemize}

\item The revised Fisheries Act includes new Fish Stocks provisions that introduced legal
obligations to manage major fish stocks at levels necessary to promote sustainability,
avoid limit reference points, and implement plans to rebuild stocks that have declined to,
or below, a limit reference point, all while taking into account the biology of the fish and
environmental conditions facing the stock.

\end{itemize}

\lipsum[2]
\end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}

There are a lot of options for formatting. https://tools.ietf.org/doc/texlive-doc/latex/tcolorbox/tcolorbox.pdf

You'd have to add

header-includes:
  - \usepackage{tcolorbox}

in the YAML header and it would only work in PDF output. We might be able to do it in Word output by creating a style.

Also, using the TeX environment would mean the text in between \begin{tcolorbox} and \end{tcolorbox} would have to be TeX not Markdown, I think. Perhaps we could create a marker that gets translated to \begin{tcolorbox} when the TeX code gets created to get around that.

[carrieholt]

Thanks. This looks promising. However, I'm having difficulty downloading the tcolorbox, after adding - \usepackage{tcolorbox} in the Index file under header-includes.
Here's the error:
tlmgr.pl: package repository http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: valid signature with expired key)
[1/1, ??:??/??:??] install: tcolorbox [226k]

TeXLive::TLUtils::check_file_and_remove: checksums differ for C:\Users\HoltC\AppData\Local\Temp\1\R9VPGGbimA\A1jSDMm3OI/tcolorbox.tar.xz:
...
TLPDB::_install_data: downloading did not succeed (check_file_and_remove failed) for http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/tcolorbox.tar.xz

I will try recreating the error in a blank csasdown template, and send to you (unless you have any initial thoughts)

[seananderson]

Are you using tinytex in R for LaTeX or something else? tinytex::is_tinytex()

[carrieholt]

Yes, I'm using tinytex in R for LaTeX.

[seananderson]

I'm not sure. This could be any number of TeX things from the server just being down when you tried it.

I assume:

tinytex::tlmgr_install("tcolorbox")

still fails?

You could try changing the texlive server:

tinytex::tlmgr_repo("https://ctan.math.ca/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet")

I think the default is https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet, which should pick a mirror. It seems to be picking a US server for you but a Canadian one for me.

and then

tinytex::tlmgr_install("tcolorbox")

Although the above should work regardless, you could also check your texlive version:

tinytex::tlmgr_version()
#> tlmgr revision 60693 (2021-10-04 04:24:25 +0200)
#> tlmgr using installation: /Path/to/your/Library/TinyTeX
#> TeX Live (https://tug.org/texlive) version 2021

[carrieholt]

Those didn't work. However I had this message, "tlmgr.pl: Local TeX Live (2020) is older than remote repository (2021).....
A new version of TeX Live has been released. If you need to install or update any LaTeX packages, you have to upgrade TinyTeX with tinytex::reinstall_tinytex().", so tried to update tinytex. Unfortunately, many of the tinytex packages won't install now (same problem with tcolorbox), so I am no longer able to able to knit. Perhaps there is back up somewhere, but the filing system is not intuitive to me.

The error message I get is: Please try from a different mirror and/or wait a few minutes and try again; usually this is because of transient updates. If problems persist, feel free to report to [email protected]

However, I'm not sure how to change the mirror (repository) in the installation of packages. E.g., tinytex::tlmgr_install ("nccmath")

[carrieholt]

The entire error when I try to knit now is:

C:\Users\HoltC\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\tlmgr.pl: signature verification error of C:/Users/HoltC/AppData/Roaming/TinyTeX/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.main.f5c4932332eb88bb88cf51695a8348dc from https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb: cryptographic signature verification of
C:\Users\HoltC\AppData\Local\Temp\1\cL2xykF652\JwfMEUcLWk
against
https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.sha512.asc
failed. Output was:
gpg: Signature made Mon Jan 17 17:05:19 2022 PST using RSA key ID 19438C70
gpg: BAD signature from "TeX Live Distribution [email protected]"

Please try from a different mirror and/or wait a few minutes
and try again; usually this is because of transient updates.
If problems persist, feel free to report to [email protected].

! LaTeX Error: File `nccmath.sty' not found.

! Emergency stop.
<read *> flag __f

Error: LaTeX failed to compile resdoc.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See resdoc.log for more info.

[seananderson]

You can set the repository back to what I think is the default with:

tinytex::tlmgr_repo("https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet")

which is probably worth doing. I think this is a problem on the texlive server side, but I'm not sure. E.g. rstudio/tinytex#213

Other possible mirrors: https://ctan.org/mirrors/mirmon

[carrieholt]

Working now. Thanks!