Error creating self-contained slidy file when compiled with embed_data_files

[jgm]

I'm using Pandoc 1.11.1 on Windows, and I get an error when trying to
make a self contained slidy file:

pandoc -t slidy -s training.text -o training.html --self-contained

pandoc: user error (Data file `slidy/styles/slidy.css' does not exist)

And no output file is created.

This worked without error in pandoc 1.9.4.2.

It appears that pandoc is installed on my system at:

C:\Users\noah\AppData\Local\Pandoc

but pandoc --version reports:

Default user data directory: C:\Users\noah\AppData\Roaming\pandoc

I don't see any subdirectories in either folder.

(Noah O'Connor)

[jgm]

On OSX, I get a different error:

Data file `slidy/styles/../graphics/nofold-dim.gif' does not exist

I suspect that on Windows it is not finding any of the slidy data files. This could be a forward/backslash issue with paths, or perhaps the binary in the package wasn't properly compiled with embed_data_files flag?

[jgm]

On OSX,

Prelude Text.Pandoc.Shared> readDataFile Nothing "slidy/graphics/nofold-dim.gif"
"GIF87a\t\NUL\t\NUL\128\STX\NUL\204\204\204\235\235\255,\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\t\NUL\t\NUL\NUL\STX\SI\132\143\161\ESC\198\235^\ETXr\214\248\&0C\FS\DC4\NUL;"
Prelude Text.Pandoc.Shared> readDataFile Nothing "slidy/styles/../graphics/nofold-dim.gif"
*** Exception: user error (Data file `slidy/styles/../graphics/nofold-dim.gif' does not exist)

So the paths aren't being regarded as equivalent by the data file lookup: we need to normalize the paths before the lookup.

[lebebr01]

I had the same issue today using pandoc on linux. Has this fix been pushed to the latest version?

[jgm]

+++ lebebr01 [May 10 13 11:59 ]:

I had the same issue today using pandoc on linux. Has this fix been
pushed to the latest version?

No, it's not yet in any released version. It will be in the next
release.