The OP may want to look here too:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#default-files
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--metadata-file
A tip: if you include raw markup in the `header-includes` field of metadata, whether in the document source file or in a metadata file (but not in the variables field of a defaults file!) you probably want to mark it as a raw markup block so that Pandoc doesn't escape punctuation characters in that markup, or wrongly includes it in other output formats if you produce more than one output format from the same source:

header-includes:
  - ``````{=latex}
    \usepackage{somepackage}
    ``````

/bpj

Den tis 14 sep. 2021 20:21Michael Becker <michael-QF1XyMwE1Uwv0rdu9s6TydBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> skrev:

Thanks!!! That did the trick. All I need was the nudge. 🙏


Michael J. BeckerCEOIdentity Praxis, Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/in/privacyshaman/
Check my availability & schedule meeting with me: 30 MIN or 60 MINOn Sep 14, 2021, 11:11 AM -0700, Jeremy Theler <jeremy@seamplex.com>, wrote:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block
On Tue, 2021-09-14 at 08:54 -0700, Michael Becker wrote:

Hi all, I apologies for the newbie question, but I really don't understand how to connect a YAML document to my pandoc processing? I have the doc.  Where do I put it? In the header of the file? in a data directory? If a data directory, how do I give it a path. Can I combine both a bibliography and a yaml document, or should I be using a metadata document?

I've read the documentation, but it is not making sense to me. If someone can point me down the right path, I'd appreciate it. 
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