Full path to reference doc does not work in Cygwin

Full path to reference doc does not work in Cygwin

[Hans Kunkell]

Hi!

This is my first message, so I would like to thank all contributors
for this great software!

I have an issue with full path names to --reference-doc and --data-dir.

I run pandoc from within a bash script running in Cygwin under Windows
7. If I use full path information to the --reference-doc or
--data-dir, I get the error
openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

For example, these 2 examples does not work:
pandoc --reference-doc=/home/hans/Documents/script/reference.odt -o
test.odt input.md
pandoc --reference-doc=/cygdrive/c/Users/Hans/Documents/script/reference.odt
-o test.odt input.md

For the case of --data-dir I will not get an error but it is obvious
that my reference.odt has not been applied to the output file.


These works in Cygwin environment:
pandoc --reference-doc=../script/reference.odt -o test.odt input.md
                              # relative path
pandoc --reference-doc='C:\Users\Hans\Documents\script\reference.odt'
-o test.odt input.md           # windows style full path
pandoc --data-dir='C:\Users\Hans\Documents\script\' -o test.odt
input.md                             # windows style full path

I have tested both Pandoc 2.7.2 and 2.7.3 with same result.
Cygwin version: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 dator 3.0.1(0.338/5/3) 2019-02-20 10:19
x86_64 Cygwin

Full paths works in CMD.exe and in Linux (Ubuntu with pandoc 2.7.2).
For me it is of a smaller issue, but
pandoc -s --reference-doc=~/Documents/script/reference.odt -o test.odt
input.md                      # Does not work with ~ (tilde)
will also not work.

Has anyone else experienced these issues?
I can workaround this but I think it would be good if it worked.

Regards
Hans

Re: Full path to reference doc does not work in Cygwin

[John MacFarlane]

Cygwin is tough.  Certain things about pandoc's
file path handling depend on the platform pandoc
is compiled on.  So a pandoc compiled on windows
may have expectations that are not met in Cygwin.

See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5451
which may be somehow related.

You can put up an issue on this if you like.

About the other issue:

> Full paths works in CMD.exe and in Linux (Ubuntu with pandoc 2.7.2).
> For me it is of a smaller issue, but
> pandoc -s --reference-doc=~/Documents/script/reference.odt -o test.odt
> input.md                      # Does not work with ~ (tilde)
> will also not work.

This is because ~ is interpreted by the shell, normally, but
in this context it is just passed on literally to pandoc.
If you try with a space in place of = it should work.

Re: Full path to reference doc does not work in Cygwin

[Hans Kunkell]

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Dear John,

thank you for your reply!

I realized that I use Pandoc compiled for Windows and that is probably the 
reason it behaves like this in Cygwin environment.
Changing = to space does not work either, and I assume it depends on the 
differencies in environments.

I can workaround both of these problems (or use correct software in the 
right environment).

Thank you!

Regards
Hans

Fredag 12 juli 2019 kl. 06:34:33 UTC+9 skrev John MacFarlane:

>
> Cygwin is tough.  Certain things about pandoc's 
> file path handling depend on the platform pandoc 
> is compiled on.  So a pandoc compiled on windows 
> may have expectations that are not met in Cygwin. 
>
> See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5451 
> which may be somehow related. 
>
> You can put up an issue on this if you like. 
>
> About the other issue: 
>
> > Full paths works in CMD.exe and in Linux (Ubuntu with pandoc 2.7.2). 
> > For me it is of a smaller issue, but 
> > pandoc -s --reference-doc=~/Documents/script/reference.odt -o test.odt 
> > input.md                      # Does not work with ~ (tilde) 
> > will also not work. 
>
> This is because ~ is interpreted by the shell, normally, but 
> in this context it is just passed on literally to pandoc. 
> If you try with a space in place of = it should work. 
>
>

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