Creating of dirs in namespaces only when they're accessed (this is needed because until then, we don't know what $dir is. Also telling pandoc to strip comments.

src/formatitko/images.py

@@ -38,11 +38,6 @@ class ImageProcessorNamespace:
 		self.lookup_dirs = lookup_dirs
 		self.web_path = web_path if web_path[-1] != "/" else web_path[:-1]
 		self.include_src = include_src
-		if not os.path.exists(self.public_dir):
-			os.mkdir(self.public_dir)
-		if not os.path.exists(self.cache_dir):
-			os.mkdir(self.cache_dir)
-
 
 class ImageProcessorSearcher:
 	def get_lookup_dirs(self) -> list[str]:
@@ -96,6 +91,8 @@ class ImageProcessorCacheSearcher(ImageProcessorSearcher):
 
 	def __init__(self, cache_dir: str):
 		self.cache_dir = cache_dir
+		if not os.path.exists(self.cache_dir):
+			os.makedirs(self.cache_dir, exist_ok=True)
 
 	def get_lookup_dirs(self) -> list[str]:
 		return [self.cache_dir]
@@ -129,10 +126,16 @@ class ImageProcessorNamespaceSearcher(ImageProcessorSearcher):
 		return path.replace("$dir", self.rel_dir)
 
 	def get_cache_dir(self) -> str:
-		return self.transform_path(self.namespace.cache_dir)
+		cache_dir = self.transform_path(self.namespace.cache_dir)
+		if not os.path.exists(cache_dir):
+			os.makedirs(cache_dir, exist_ok=True)
+		return cache_dir
 
 	def get_public_dir(self) -> str:
-		return self.transform_path(self.namespace.public_dir)
+		public_dir = self.transform_path(self.namespace.public_dir)
+		if not os.path.exists(public_dir):
+			os.makedirs(public_dir, exist_ok=True)
+		return public_dir
 
 	def get_web_path(self) -> str:
 		return self.transform_path(self.namespace.web_path)

src/formatitko/util.py

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def parse_string(s: str) -> list[Union[Str, Space]]:
 # we ever want to disable or enable some of panflute's markdown extensions,
 # this is the place to do it.
 def import_md(s: str, standalone: bool=True) -> Union[Doc, list[Element]]:
-	return convert_text(s, standalone=standalone, input_format="markdown-definition_lists-latex_macros")
+	return convert_text(s, standalone=standalone, input_format="markdown-definition_lists-latex_macros", extra_args=["--strip-comments"])
 
 def import_md_list(s: str) -> list[Element]:
 	return import_md(s, standalone=False)