Re: epub and external links (to Dropbox)

[Federico Bruni <fedelogy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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2015-10-23 18:54 GMT+02:00 John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>:

> Let's try a regular path file on a server, see file attached:
>>   pandoc -o pandoc-server.epub [2]pandoc-server.md
>>   pandoc downloads the file and includes it in the epub. Why?
>>   HTML output does not include external resources by default and you can
>>   include them with option --self-contained. IMO epub output should work
>>   the same. Is it a bug or a design decision?
>>
>
> Design decision.  The idea is that EPUBs should be
> self-contained electronic books that can be read on your
> device even when you don't have an internet connection.
>
> We treat PDFs, docx, odt similarly -- all necessary
> resources are downloaded and included.
>
>
I see. But while searching the archives of this list I found somebody
saying that this behaviour could be outdated now that most of ebook devices
have WiFi connection (not to mention the tablets..).


> In principle we could change this behavior, but a change in
> the default here might break existing workflows.  One
> possibility would be to make this behavior sensitive to some
> kind of flag.  For example, if the `data-external` attribute
> is set on `<source>` element, don't include in the EPUB.
>

Yes, this would be nice. It would allow to still have the audio player in
the EPUB while keeping the file small. Issue #2473 may be turned into this
feature request?

In the meanwhile, I guess that I'll use a simple link to the file.

Thanks
Federico

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