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| author | Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> | 2022-04-21 15:44:57 -0600 |
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| committer | Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> | 2022-04-21 15:45:35 -0600 |
| commit | 2cb4baf5b0454e0f3e9a10950d1b9151092f1df1 (patch) | |
| tree | ed97d800673fb4ba57e4d3e8d932b9dfeaf85b07 /docs | |
| parent | 50468a34481c5e5093a9909aab314514b98cf223 (diff) | |
clarify how the docinfodir value is resolved [skip ci]
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/modules/ROOT/pages/docinfo.adoc | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/docinfo.adoc b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/docinfo.adoc index 852eea3b..9b109ef3 100644 --- a/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/docinfo.adoc +++ b/docs/modules/ROOT/pages/docinfo.adoc @@ -210,15 +210,17 @@ If other AsciiDoc files are added to the same folder, and `docinfo` is set to `s [#resolving] == Locating docinfo files -By default, docinfo files are searched for in the same folder as the document file. -If you want to keep them anywhere else, set the `docinfodir` attribute to their location: +By default, docinfo files are searched for in the same directory as the document file (which can be overridden by setting the `:base_dir` API option / `--base-dir` CLI option). +If you want to load them from another location, set the `docinfodir` attribute to the directory where the files are located. +If the value of the `docinfodir` attribute is a relative path, that value is appended to the document directory. +If the value is an absolute path, that value is used as is. [source,asciidoc] ---- :docinfodir: common/meta ---- -Note that if you use this attribute, only the specified folder will be searched; docinfo files in the document folder will no longer be found. +Note that if you use this attribute, only the specified folder will be searched; docinfo files in the document directory will no longer be found. [#attribute-substitution] == Attribute substitution in docinfo files |