Re: Adding minimal CSS to pandoc's default HTML template

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org> writes:

>> 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.

You can always use "fragment" mode if that's what you want (no -s).
The CSS will not be embedded in this case.

For local previews, though, won't it be better with the CSS,
which gives you a sane margin, fonts, etc.?

> 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.

True, but if this is an argument against it, wouldn't it be an
argument against *everything* in the default template?