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`~/.pandoc/default.csl` does not get used as mentioned in pandoc user guide? #2372

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On OS X 10.10.4
pandoc: stable 1.15.0.6
pandoc-citeproc: stable 0.7.2

I was reading through the pandoc markdown docs to set up, and found that the documentation was misleading about default citation styles.

~/.pandoc/default.csl is never picked up. pandoc-citeproc will only accept ~/.csl/chicago-author-date.csl as a default file, according to the manpage and the code.

Should the documentation on the page be changed? (a pandoc issue?)
Or should pandoc-citeproc be updated to look for ~/.pandoc/default.csl before chicago-author-date? (a pandoc-citeproc issue?)

I think it would be better to get ~/.pandoc/default.csl recognised (defaults other than chicago-author-date make a lot of sense), but I'm not sure.

Of course, maybe I'm doing something wrong - does ~/.pandoc/default.csl work for anyone else?

@cinaeco cinaeco changed the title from `.pandoc/default.csl` does not get used as mentioned in pandoc user guide? to `~/.pandoc/default.csl` does not get used as mentioned in pandoc user guide?
@jgm jgm added a commit that closed this issue
@jgm Removed obsolete reference to default.csl. 
Closes #2372.

@cinaeco as the pandoc-citeproc man page describes, the current
behavior if no style is specified is to look in
`~/.csl/chicago-author-date.csl`, and if nothing is found there,
to use a default version of chicago-author-date.csl.

You may want to open a separate issue on jgm/pandoc-citeproc
suggesting the use of `default.csl` rather than
`chicago-author-date.csl`.  I agree that this would make sense.
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@jgm jgm closed this in 546201c
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Use `default.csl` instead of `chicago-author-date.csl` #161

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