Issue Fixes, functionality improvement

Purpose
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* Update the MFR to improve functionality, modularity, ease of use

Changes
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* Remove pins to outdated requirements
* Improve naming of static asset path variables
* Allow mfr_tabular to strip comments from *-separated value files
* Fix potential unicode encoding error in mfr_tabular
* Improve style of rendered pdf's

Side Effects
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Several issues closed, syntax improved, researched requirements to: render ppt's / improve video renderer