Location of global template files

[avidseeker]

I'm pretty sure there was a pandoc directory somewhere in /usr/share or /usr/lib that I can't seem to find (current version: v3.6.4).

IIRC, that directory contained global data like default templates, that can be obtained using pandoc -D latex.

There is also pandoc --print-default-data-file=MANUAL.txt which I'm sure retrieves the file from the global data directory.

[jgm]

It depends on how your pandoc was compiled. If it was compiled with the embed_data_files flag, as our release binaries are, then there are no external data files; the data is baked into the binary itself.

[iandol]

For baked-in builds, you can have a copy of the global templates to peruse at least by cloning https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-templates ...

[avidseeker]

the data is baked into the binary itself.

No wonder then that its size is 205M

$ ls -sh /bin/pandoc
205M /bin/pandoc

[jgm]

Wish that were the explanation, but the data files are only 1.5 M.
Haskell binaries tend to be big, and pandoc is a big project with lots of dependencies.