Layouts in sub directories cannot find partials

I have the following folder structure within my project:

root |-- build |-- content | |-- index.md | |-- robots.txt | |-- sitemap.xml | |-- state-of-storage-data.md | |-- water-environment-data.md | |-- img | |-- scripts | |-- water-environment-data | | |-- rain-and-river-data.md | | |-- rain-and-river-data | | | |-- scheme.md |-- layouts | |-- index.html | |-- robots.html | |-- sitemap.html | |-- partials | | |-- default.html | | |-- footer.html | | |-- header.html | | |-- home.html | | |-- navigation.html | |-- rain-and-river-data | | |-- scheme.html

And I am getting the following error when transforming the content/water-environment-data/rain-and-river-data/scheme.md:

  metalsmith-layouts stringifying file: index.md +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts found new template: root\layouts\index.html +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts stringifying file: robots.txt +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts found new template: root\layouts\robots.html +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts stringifying file: sitemap.xml +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts found new template: root\layouts\sitemap.html +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts stringifying file: state-of-storage-data.md +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts stringifying file: water-environment-data.md +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts stringifying file: water-environment-data\rain-and-river-data.md +10ms
  metalsmith-layouts stringifying file: water-environment-data\rain-and-river-data\scheme.md +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts found new template: root\layouts\rain-and-river-data\scheme.html +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts converting file: index.md +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts converting file: robots.txt +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts converting file: sitemap.xml +0ms
  metalsmith-layouts converting file: water-environment-data\rain-and-river-data\scheme.md +0ms
{ Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'root\layouts\rain-and-river-data\partials\default.html'
    at Error (native)
  errno: -4058,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: 'root\\layouts\\rain-and-river-data\\partials\\default.html' }

My configuration is as follows:

 "metalsmith-layouts": {
   "engine": "handlebars",
   "directory": "layouts",
   "partials": "layouts/partials/",
  "partialExtension": ".html"
 },

layouts/rain-and-river-data/scheme.html contains:

 {{#extend "default"}}
  {{#content "main"}}
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <div class="row-fluid">
            <div class="col-xs-12">
                <h3>{{ title }}</h3>
                <p>Content to be entered here</p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
  {{/content}}
{{/extend}}

content/water-environment-data/rain-and-river-data/scheme.md:

title: Rain & River by Scheme url: /water-environment-data/rain-and-river-data description: Rain & River data Page layout: rain-and-river-data/scheme.html permalink: false function: home

It is expected that default.html gets picked up from layout/partials folder.

It appears that it is looking for partials that are relative to the content directory, rather than using the absolute path.

At the moment it only works if I place all files in the layouts directory only and no sub-directories.

Please help.

metalsmith / layouts

Layouts in sub directories cannot find partials #129