TEST: Switch to new quantecon-sphinx-theme (Theme #2) + collect Feedback

[mmcky]

Test PR: New QuantEcon Sphinx Theme

This PR replaces quantecon-book-theme with the new quantecon-sphinx-theme.

Changes

• environment.yml: Replaced quantecon-book-theme==0.15.1 with quantecon-sphinx-theme installed from the git main branch
• lectures/_config.yml:
  • Changed html_theme from quantecon_book_theme to quantecon_sphinx_theme
  • Updated html_theme_options to use the new theme's configuration schema (color_scheme, dark_mode, toc_sticky, toc_autoexpand, etc.)
  • Removed old book-theme-specific options (authors, header_organisation, analytics, launch_buttons)

Purpose

This is a test PR to evaluate the new theme's rendering with our lecture content. Review the CI build output to assess compatibility.

DO NOT MERGE — This is for testing/evaluation only.

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[mmcky]

[mmcky]

This is a DEMO of a second theme that includes "features" of our theme, still minimal but is distinctively different to our current theme. This theme could serve two purposes:

1. a theme that others can use on their projects (protecting the QE identity by restricting quantecon-book-theme)
2. a theme to be used by a "contributors" series of lectures -- non primary QE lecture series.

[mmcky]

I am not convinced about the name quantecon-sphinx-theme:

• quantecon-minimal-sphinx-theme
• ...

[mmcky]

@kp992 I have been working on a second QuantEcon theme that we could use for non-core QuantEcon lectures - i.e. topic series. Here is a prototype. It has many of the same features from the QuantEcon theme but it is a bit more minimal and focuses on the content.

https://699d241d064feca2f249791b--epic-agnesi-957267.netlify.app/intro

If you had any time I would welcome any feedback on the design. What works? What doesn't work? What you like? What you don't like?

(cc: @HumphreyYang, @nisha617, @jstac)

[mmcky]

Comments (please edit):

• add in Authors and Translator Fields for each lecture