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The current mapping is only good for Font Awesome 5 Free

The quirks that go with this is that Font Awesome 5 Pro adds a lot of icons not in Font Awesome 5 Free.
Either a diff can be generated of the icon sets (and built into the release with \ifdef) or separate .stys could be provides for pro and free mappings.

Should implement pytests for the heck of it.

PDFLatex support hasn't been tested.
It may need additional templates to be created.

Reference:

• https://github.com/xdanaux/fontawesome-latex/blob/master/generate_tex_bindings.py

To further automate this, releases should be automated using Travis CI.

The \ifthen condition should be applied to the pro icons.yml in the release.
Currently, the release is only for Font Awesome 5 Free.

Something like:

% freeiconhere
\iffontawesome@pro
% proiconhere
\fi
% freeiconhere

This is also pending some licensing inquiries about the metadata included in the Font Awesome 5 Pro package.

Sharelatex support hasn't been tested.
It may need additional templates to be created.

Reference:

• https://github.com/xdanaux/fontawesome-latex/blob/master/generate_tex_bindings.py

All mappings could be put into one file

The FontAwesome font can be set to use solid and light fonts when the font weight is set to bold or italic respectively, like so: \textbf\faThumbsUp \textit\faThumbsUp

The mappings could follow Font Awesome's Icon Prefixes.

Lualatex support hasn't been tested.
It may need additional templates to be created.

Reference:

• https://github.com/xdanaux/fontawesome-latex/blob/master/generate_tex_bindings.py

The 500px icon is currently omitted due to TeX macros cannot contain numbers.

Reference:

• https://github.com/xdanaux/fontawesome-latex/blob/master/generate_tex_bindings.py

Fonts should be automatically detected in fontawesome-free-5.x.xx/use-on-desktop
Currently, the following is used to declare packages to build:

packages = { 
    'regular': {
        'name': 'fontawesomefree',  # The name of the latex .sty file
        'desc': 'Font Awesome 5 Free Regular',  # Description of the font variant
        'font': 'FontAwesome 5 Free Regular',  # The font name as registered when installed
        'short': 'far',  # the short for FontAwesome icons, i.e. \faicon
        'cmd': 'faicon',  # The command for FontAwesome icons, i.e. \faicon
        'file': 'fontawesomefree.sty'  # The file name generated
    },  
    ... do this for Solid and Brand variants
}