Re: images in templates

["Amy de Buitléir" <amy-x92Y4IBCQKU6Cx7ujrKbww@public.gmane.org>]

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Apparently this is an open issue <https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6519>
.

On Saturday, 7 January 2023 at 17:18:07 UTC Amy de Buitléir wrote:

> I'm writing Pandoc LaTeX and Beamer templates that need to include images 
> for corporate branding. So I want to insert an includegraphics command 
> into the template, using the include-before-body option, or even 
> modifying the default template if necessary.
>
> The problem is that at the time pandoc is invoked, *we don't know the 
> path to the images*,
> but we do know their location relative to the "user data directory" (e.g. 
> /home/amy/.local/share/pandoc) and the location of the YAML defaults file.
>
> Here's the directory structure I'm using for testing.
>
> .
> ├── example.md
> └── templates
>     └── defaults                  <-- Ultimately this will live in the 
> user data directory
>         ├── test.yaml
>         ├── body-include.tex      <-- Contains "\includegraphics{test.png}"
>         ├── header-include.tex    <-- Contains "\usepackage{graphicx}"
>         └── test.png
>
> I have tried two approaches.
>
> 1. Using --resource-path. This option can be used to specify locations to 
> look for images. That works fine for images that are included in the main 
> document, but not for images included in the template.
>
> 2. Passing some location information to body-include.tex (or the default 
> template if I need to modify that), so it can construct a path to the 
> image. The only way I know of to accomplish this is to use ${.}, but that 
> only works in fields that expect file paths, not in variables that LaTeX or 
> Beamer templates can use, as far as I know.
>

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