2015-10-23 18:54 GMT+02:00 John MacFarlane : > 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 But while searching the archives of this list I found somebody saying that this behaviour could be outdated now that most of ebook devices have WiFi connection (not to mention the tablets..).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 `` 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CAPjDBprbqgv%3Dc-btE1WTRJFB-gwDDnBqzCjN93HM6Af7c0_etw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.