Re: loading files from data-dir paths

[Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>]

Did you try to look at the output `pandoc --version` to know where your data directory is?

Le Friday 29 April 2022 à 05:48:47PM, jlr...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org a écrit :
> Hello!
> 
> Excuse me for my insistence, but even in version 1.18 I cannot figure out how
> to make a custom repository of configuration files for groff ms or lua filters
> instead of copying and/or moving them around each working directory. Any
> solution?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> 
> Il giorno mercoledì 16 febbraio 2022 alle 17:22:11 UTC-6 jlr...@gmail.com ha
> scritto:
> 
>     Hello!
> 
>     I was trying to avoid setting the same metadata on different files, and I
>     read in the manual that yaml metadata are interpreted as markdown if loaded
>     with `--metadata-file`, so that would not fly. So I tried to put them my
>     customizations in different files for each backend (roughly, TeX and ms, to
>     generate PDFs) and load them on the command line as follows
> 
>     $ pandoc -B [1]2c.ms -H [2]wideltr.ms -H [3]es.ms --eol=lf -st ms
>     filename.docx | groff -e -t -ms -Dutf8 | awk '{print > "[4]filename.ps"}'
> 
>     This works if *.ms are in the same working directory, but not if I put them
>     in the data-dir built-in into pandoc's executable. Where should I put them
>     so that I don't have to multiply copies in every working directory? I tried
>     the base directory, and the templates subdirectory, of pandoc's data-dir,
>     where I have my [5]default.ms template. I'm working on Win10, both personal
>     and professional.
> 
>     Cheers!
> 
> 
> 
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> References:
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> [1] http://2c.ms/
> [2] http://wideltr.ms/
> [3] http://es.ms/
> [4] http://filename.ps/
> [5] http://default.ms/
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