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Otto Smittenaar

12 Apr, 2016 09:29 AM

I assumed that every external file tag would be processed also when it exists in a document that's already included via a external file tag. I tested this with both tag options and it did not work:

<<[sections/section1.md]
{{filename}}

Do you have a solution for this?

Best regards,
Otto

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 12 Apr, 2016 02:22 PM

   

   You can nest includes, but note that all paths are relative to the base
   document, not the included document. If the base document includes
   "sections/section1.md" and then section1.md wants to include a subfolder
   "subsections/subsection1.md", it would have to use:

   <<[sections/subsections/subsection1.md]

   Because all of the included documents have to be collated before
   rendering in order to process things like footnotes, referenced links,
   etc., by the time the include statement is processed, nested includes
   don't know always know where they came from in a folder hierarchy.

   -Brett

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2. 2 Posted by Otto Smittenaar on 15 Apr, 2016 09:53 AM

   

   Hi Brett,

   Thank you for the quick reply. I totally forgot about this. You are right. It works perfectly.

   Thanks again.

   Best regards,
   Otto Smittenaar

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3. 3 Posted by davidjohnmacdon... on 30 May, 2016 01:53 AM

   

   For what's its worth, I have not found this to be the case in my own "multi-multi-file" documents. My MMD file transclusions with {{file.md}} are always relative to the file that has the transclusion. I actually can't do it the way Brett is suggesting because I need to generate HTML/PDF of some parts separately from HTML/PDF of wholes.

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