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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2021-03-05 11:56:41 -0800 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2021-03-05 11:56:41 -0800 |
| commit | df00cf05cbf817b7d8e7de0a4a220dd70f8a9608 (patch) | |
| tree | 98ac261dccf4c7b13055b4571f189e15095b590a /MANUAL.txt | |
| parent | 6dd7520cc4b3816ae13ec486ce0909b9b881d240 (diff) | |
| download | pandoc-df00cf05cbf817b7d8e7de0a4a220dd70f8a9608.tar.gz | |
Allow `${.}` in defaults files paths...
to refer to the directory where the default file is.
This will make it possible to create moveable
"packages" of resources in a directory.
Closes #5871.
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| -rw-r--r-- | MANUAL.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index f06293dd3..8e98ee1eb 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -1684,6 +1684,19 @@ user data directory that is current when the defaults file is parsed, regardless of the setting of the environment variable `USERDATA`. +`${.}` will resolve to the directory containing the default +file itself. This allows you to refer to resources contained +in that directory: + +``` yaml +epub-cover-image: ${.}/cover.jpg +epub-metadata: ${.}/meta.xml +resource-path: +- . # the working directory from which pandoc is run +- ${.}/images # the images subdirectory of the directory + # containing this defaults file +``` + This environment variable interpolation syntax *only* works in fields that expect file paths. |