Re: Conversion to LaTeX: --resource-path and \includegraphics

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Bruno,

Bruno Grenet <bruno.grenet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> When converting to LaTeX (say from markdown in my case), it seems
> that the --resource-path option has no effect for \includegraphics
> commands. Let's assume for instance the following markdown file
> image.md:
>
> An image: ![My image](image.jpg)
>
> Then the commands
>> pandoc image.md -s -o image.tex
> and
>> pandoc image.md -s --resource-path=img/ -o image.tex
> produce the exact same file. It means that if you put image.jpg in
> the directory img/, the resulting LaTeX file will fail to compile
> even with the --resource-path option.

The resource path takes effect when pandoc tries to actually grab and
use the image, e.g. when converting to PDF or docx. You can let pandoc
collect all images and place them in the target directory by passing
`--extract-media=.`


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