thesisdown::thesis_pdf required

[paezha]

I noticed that a few of the packages adapted from thesisdown use in the yaml of their skeleton.Rmd file the following:

output: 
   thesisdown::thesis_pdf: default 

This requires thesisdown to be installed. I am trying to make my package self-contained, but when I change the output to:

output: 
   macdown::thesis_pdf: default 

The tex file generated does not have a complete path to the figures: instead of _bookdown_files\thesis_files\figure-latex it is only thesis_files\figure-latex (despite the thesis.R file including a macdown::thesis_pdf() function, similar to thesisdown).

At the moment, I resorted to declare a dependency to thesisdown, and this solves my issue, but I am curious about the behavior of the intermediate tex file. Why does the tex file think it is inside _bookdown_files?

Any help would be appreciated.