`revealjs-url` path is resolved relative to the `quarto render` command, not the project being rendered

[gadenbuie]

Bug description

When revealjs-url is used, the path is not relative to the document in which the key appears, but rather the working directory where quarto render or quarto preview are called. I believe the path to revealjs-url should be relative to the source document and should be resolved as part of the metadata resolution.

Steps to reproduce

quarto create project website reprex --no-prompt --no-open
cd reprex

mkdir slides
cd slides

# Checkout a version of revealjs
gh repo clone hakimel/reveal.js revealjs-4.5.0
cd revealjs-4.5.0
git checkout 4.5.0
cd ..

# Write slide content
cat <<EOF > slides.qmd
---
format:
  revealjs:
    revealjs-url: revealjs-4.5.0
---
EOF

Note the relative path in revealjs-url. Calling quarto render slide.qmd from inside slides/ works, but if you move up one directory, the website fails to render.

quarto render slides.qmd

cd ..
quarto render
[1/5] index.qmd
[2/5] slides/slides.qmd
ERROR: WalkError: No such file or directory (os error 2): readdir 'revealjs-4.5.0/dist' for path "revealjs-4.5.0/dist"

If you make revealjs-url relative to the website root, it will work for a bit. But if you happen to have your website inside a folder in your repo, e.g. website/, then quarto render website will fail (this is effectively what's called by the quarto-actions/publish action).

Expected behavior

revealjs-url should be relative to the place where it's defined, and should not change when quarto render is called from a different directory.

Actual behavior

quarto render works from some directories and fails from others.

Your environment

Default quarto-actions/publish action (same version of quarto as reported below). Also locally on MacOS 14.5

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.5.55
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.5.55
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (external install)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: /Users/garrick/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
      Version: 2022

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.2
      Path: /Users/garrick/.rye/py/cpython@3.12.2/bin/python3
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.1
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Users/garrick/Library/R/arm64/4.4/library
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.48
      rmarkdown: 2.27

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[mcanouil]

You mean revealjs-url? not remarkjs-url? (Remark.js is not supported)

[gadenbuie]

You mean revealjs-url? not remarkjs-url? (Remark.js is not supported)

Yeah and apparently I remembered the right one somewhere around halfway through writing up the issue.

[cderv]

For context on this one, my understanding is that we are copying the folder and then passing the final path as value directly to Pandoc's own variable for this https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#variables-for-html-slides

https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/814604696f1a36c4351245100f72c7fb75fba5eb/src/format/reveal/format-reveal-theme.ts#L73-L99

then it is used in HTML template as is https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/814604696f1a36c4351245100f72c7fb75fba5eb/src/resources/formats/revealjs/pandoc/revealjs.template#L19-L20

The problem here happens for the copy of the provided folder. Here is the stack trace

Stack trace:
    at wrapErrorWithPath (file:///C:/Users/chris/Documents/DEV_R/quarto-cli/src/vendor/deno.land/std@0.217.0/fs/walk.ts:50:10)
    at walkSync (file:///C:/Users/chris/Documents/DEV_R/quarto-cli/src/vendor/deno.land/std@0.217.0/fs/walk.ts:219:11)
    at walkSync.next (<anonymous>)
    at copyMinimal (file:///C:/Users/chris/Documents/DEV_R/quarto-cli/src/core/copy.ts:70:11)
    at file:///C:/Users/chris/Documents/DEV_R/quarto-cli/src/format/reveal/format-reveal-theme.ts:98:5
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at revealTheme (file:///C:/Users/chris/Documents/DEV_R/quarto-cli/src/format/reveal/format-reveal-theme.ts:97:22)
    at Object.formatExtras (file:///C:/Users/chris/Documents/DEV_R/quarto-cli/src/format/reveal/format-reveal.ts:153:29)
    at runPandoc (file:///C:/Users/chris/Documents/DEV_R/quarto-cli/src/command/render/pandoc.ts:393:31)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)

I guess in project context, it was designed to use a folder at project root to use for all presentation. Or it may not even work at all for a project setting

Possibly, just using absolute path before doing the copy could solve this.