From 930335a45bce3ae7174ea0c35e4ee0041db3735f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:03:09 -0700
Subject: Added note that the user will need to create the user data dir.

See #8727.
---
 MANUAL.txt | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index 78655e252..54c87b008 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -381,7 +381,9 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL:
     looking at the output of `pandoc --version`.
     Data files placed in this directory (for example, `reference.odt`,
     `reference.docx`, `epub.css`, `templates`) will override
-    pandoc's normal defaults.
+    pandoc's normal defaults.  (Note that the user data directory
+    is not created by pandoc, so you will need to create it yourself
+    if you want to make use of it.)
 
 `-d` *FILE*, `--defaults=`*FILE*
 
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