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diff --git a/issues/gn-guile/rendering-images-within-markdown-documents.gmi b/issues/gn-guile/rendering-images-within-markdown-documents.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe3ed39 --- /dev/null +++ b/issues/gn-guile/rendering-images-within-markdown-documents.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# Rendering Images Linked in Markdown Documents + +## Tags + +* status: open +* priority: high +* type: bug +* assigned: alexm, bonfacem, fredm +* keywords: gn-guile, images, markdown + +## Description + +Rendering images linked within markdown documents does not work as expected — we cannot render images if they have a relative path. +As an example see the commit below: +=> https://github.com/genenetwork/gn-docs/commit/783e7d20368e370fb497974f843f985b51606d00 + +In that commit, we are forced to use the full github uri to get the images to load correctly when rendered via gn-guile. This, has two unfortunate consequences: + +* It makes editing more difficult, since the user has to remember to find and use the full github URL for their images. +* It ties the data and code to github + +This needs to be fixed, such that any and all paths relative to the markdown file are resolved at render time automatically. |