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Reputation: 45

Pandoc loading images but not latex files from input subfolder

I've got a latex document that I publish as a pdf, but I need to share it with reviewers in Word .docx format. I've got some images and a bunch of graphs in tikz format in a separate .tex files in a figures subfolder. I've defined input@path{{figures/}} so that I don't have to put the path into each \input{blah.tex} call. This works just fine when I publish the document as a pdf, but when I try to use pandoc to create the docx I get a [WARNING] Could not load include file error for the .tex files, though the images load fine.

As far as I can tell, pandoc should be able to load files from subfolders and the input@path should set it up (this post discuses how to use pandoc parameters to define the input@path).

I'm sure this is some basic lack of understanding on my part, but here's a minimum non-working example:

example.tex:

\documentclass[11pt,twoside,letterpaper]{article}

\makeatletter
\def\input@path{{figures/}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[H]
  \centering
  \caption{Tikz Example}
  \input{exTikz.tex}
  \label{fig:exTikz}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

And the exTikz.tex (lifted from https://latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/tikz/)

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw [red,dashed] (-2.5,2.5) rectangle (-1.5,1.5) node [black,below] {Start}; % Draws a rectangle
  \draw [thick] (-2,2) % Draws a line
  to [out=10,in=190] (2,2)
  to [out=10,in=90] (6,0)
  to [out=-90,in=30] (-2,-2);
  \draw [fill] (5,0.1) rectangle (7,-0.1) node [black,right] {Obstacle}; % Draws another rectangle
  \draw [red,fill] (-2,-2) circle [radius=0.2] node [black,below=4] {Point of interest}; % Draws a circle
\end{tikzpicture}

I have also tried --resource-path=figures to no avail.

I realize that in order to use the graphs in a .docx I'm going to need to use a lua-filter to convert the tikz's to png ala this post, but first I need to pandoc to actually access the \begin{tikzpicture} segments stuck in the various .tex files before it will apply the filter.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 589

Answers (1)

tarleb
tarleb

Reputation: 22544

Pandoc does not support the \input@path parameter. You could open a feature request here.

I suggest to use TeX to compile the TikZ packages into proper graphics, e.g. with the method described in this Q&A, then use \renewcommand to change \input to \includegraphics, which pandoc will understand. This will also allow to make use of the --resource-path option.

Upvotes: 3

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