Oops! Thanks! As you pointed out, I misread the manual page.
Once the file was moved to $HOME/.local/share/pandoc/defaults/options.yaml it was found and it worked! Marking this bug as done. Regards, Kapil. -- On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 22:37, John MacFarlane <j...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > The man page says: > > > The file will be searched for first in the working directory, and then in > > the `defaults` subdirectory of the user data directory > > It looks as if you've put your options.yaml directly in the user > data directory rather than in the defaults subdirectory of that > directory: try `$HOME/.local/share/pandoc/defaults/options.yaml`. >
