That was my instinctive reaction at first as well, but I cannot imagine a 
case where you would use --selfcontained and not also want some CSS.

- for local preview, it's a plus if it looks good, right?
- if it's fed to a website, you're probably not using --standalone, since 
the site generator or whatever does that part..?


On Monday, August 24, 2020 at 7:51:17 PM UTC+2 DSt...-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org wrote:

> On 8/23/20 7:54 AM, Albert Krewinkel wrote: 
> > Looks great, IMHO! The produced layout is beautiful, and 
> > supporting more variables is nice, too. 
> > 
> > The only concern I have is that this could open pandora's box when 
> > is comes to requests for CSS tweaks. But this seems like a minor 
> > problem. 
>
> It's also worth considering that not all HTML output is fed to a 
> browser. I've used Pandoc to feed to local previews, or to sites that 
> can ingest HTML and work with it. It's probably embedded into some 
> pipelines someplace as well. 
>
> I appreciate the thought on this, but I'm not sure it's something we 
> want on by default - and it's also something that can be implemented 
> fairly easily by the user editing their default template. 
>
> Daniel T. Staal 
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