Fallback to data-dir for URL options.

[dashed]

If an option has option for URL, it'd be nice if pandoc somehow includes --data-dir in its 'path' for searching the appropriate file if it's not available 'locally'.

Unsure if pandoc seems to be doing this. But, I find this to be potentially useful for options such as --css and --mathjax. So the following would search via ~/.pandoc/:

pandoc --css=style.css --mathjax=js/mathjax.min.js -t html5 file.md

[ickc]

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I think pandoc should embed the CSS if it found the "URL" in data-dir. I think the current behavior is to link to it which will be useless if it is local (and not used locally).

I think there's a need for data-dir to do more than currently did. As shown in #3127 and #3138 (indirectly related).

[jgm]

+++ ickc [Oct 02 16 14:51 ]:

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I think pandoc should embed the CSS if it found the "URL" in data-dir.
I think the current behavior is to link to it which will be useless if
it is local (and not used locally).

You can always use --self-contained if you're not going to
provide the CSS on the server.

[ickc]

You're right. I forgot about it. This gives me an idea on another way to write template fragments. Thanks!

[tarleb]

Pandoc 2.0 introduced the --resource-path option which allows to control the search path, which is more fine-grained than checking the data-dir. Also, always checking the data-dir could turn into security issue.