Zettlr with own Latex template to export to PDF

I use Zettlr and Pandoc as a portable installation. Zettlr export XeLaTex PDF worked fine with my markdown.

I would like to make some Latex adoption for the PDF. Now I updated the the export file in Asset-Manager to use my own Latex template template: D:\Daten\FMEA\Zettlr_FMEA\Topic\my_template.tex.

I created a simple my_template.tex

\documentclass{article} \begin{document} $body$ \end{document} 

but if I try to export to XeLaTex PDF I get a lot of errors that something missing, for example first:

Error producing PDF. ! Undefined control sequence. l.13 \tightlist 

So my idea was take the default template from pandoc. I copied the content, now I get

Pandoc exited with code 43 Error producing PDF. ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help. ... l.3 n 

\begin{document} is in my_template.tex still there.

I need a guidance. What is a minimal template.tex for Zettlr to export to PDF. My intention is to make my own xelatex layout settings.

SOLVED

In case some other run in same problem. My my_template.tex looks now:

\documentclass{article} \providecommand{\tightlist}{% \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}} \usepackage{graphicx,subcaption} \newcommand{\pandocbounded}[1]{#1} \begin{document} $body$ \end{document} 

This works with the command under setting export:

pandoc --template=my_template.tex -o out.pdf