Thank you John, 
The symlink approach is not flexible enough for our situation, but we can 
tell folk to to use the --data-dir argument. 
Thanks for the help.

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 8:52:54 AM UTC-7, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> $DATADIR appears in the manual just as a placeholder for 
> whatever your user data directory is (see --data-dir). 
> The environment variable has no effect.  I've made a tweak 
> in the manual to make that clearer. 
>
> Note that the default user data dir is ~/.pandoc (on *nix), 
> so if you just symlink that wherever you like, that's the 
> most convenient solution. 
>
>

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