find AnVIL assets

[KatherineCox]

Trying to figure out why the tocless render can't find AnVIL assets

• The standard render works, just the tocless render fails
• It ran just fine in AnVIL_Template and AnVIL_Book_WDL. Not sure why it's breaking here.

Troubleshooting

• Tried adding the assets in a separate PR, so they already exist, before updating _output.yml, but does not seem to have helped - still errors when I update _output.yml to point to the new location

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Re-rendered previews from the latest commit:

• See preview of Bookdown here
• See preview of Coursera/Leanpub version here
• Download the preview of .docx file

Updated at 2022-08-22 with changes from f8e61c0

[KatherineCox]

YES! I think I fixed it!!!

[KatherineCox]

@cansavvy I was having some trouble figuring out why this (moving the AnVIL assets to a subdirectory) was working in AnVIL_Template_Test and AnVIL_Book_WDL, but was not working when I tried to replicate it in this repo.

The problem occurs during the TOC-less render, specifically during ottrpal::render_without_toc(), if I try to put my css file in a subdirectory of assets. The normal render can handle it, but the tocless render can't.

I think it's failing when it tries to copy into the preview's assets/AnVIL_style directory, because that destination directory doesn't exist.

But, if I first run a render using

• the old css, not in a subdirectory
• the new assets (logo, header, etc.) in a subdirectory

The subdirectory gets created and the logo, etc. get copied into it.

Then in a subsequent render I can move the css file to the subdirectory, and when render_without_toc() tries to copy it, it succeeds, because the destination directory already exists.

Not sure I explained that very well, and not sure it's worth putting in effort to make render_without_toc() more flexible, but, it took me a while to figure out, so I thought I'd share.

(In case you're wondering, the reason I wanted to move things to a subdirectory was so that I can have all the downstream repos sync the assets/AnVIL_style subdirectory without overwriting their whole assets directory)

[cansavvy]

The problem occurs during the TOC-less render, specifically during ottrpal::render_without_toc(), if I try to put my css file in a subdirectory of assets. The normal render can handle it, but the tocless render can't.

Yes, you're correct. Unfortunately ottrpal isn't really flexible for the file path for the style.css file at the moment. Definitely something we can work on but I can't promise I will get to it quickly. I will file an issue though.

Issue is here: jhudsl/ottrpal#108

[KatherineCox]

Definitely something we can work on but I can't promise I will get to it quickly. I will file an issue though.

@cansavvy No worries, I was able to figure out a solution that does what I need for AnVIL_Template.