Can't find CSL in ~/.csl directory *or* follow relative paths to CSL files. about citeproc HOT 3 CLOSED

citeproc doesn't look in .csl any more, as documented in the changelog for pandoc 2.11:

• pandoc-citeproc searches the ~/.csl directory for .csl styles. Pandoc instead searches the csl subdirectory of the pandoc user data directory (e.g., ~/.pandoc/csl or ~/.local/share/pandoc/csl). Users who already keep CSL styles in ~/.csl may find it convenient to add a symlink.

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Aaah thank you. Is the relative pathname thing also intended behavior?

(Uh, actually, I mean tilde expansion I guess. sorry.)

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Tilde expansion is a shell feature. If you specify a tilde on the command line, the shell will interpret it as your home directory before it is passed on to pandoc. But if you specify a tilde in metadata within your file, it's not interpreted by the shell so it's just...a tilde.

But your question does come up quite a bit, e.g.
jgm/pandoc#5977
jgm/pandoc#3135
A case could be made for expanding tildes in these contexts, I suppose.

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