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Script supports custom templates, but hardcoded calls to pdflatex.

pdflatex works fine with Latin-based scripts, but for indic and asian scripts XeLaTex can be easier, as it may avoid juggling with escape codes when switching between latin characters e.g. for password and other scripts.

Please consider supportring an option to choose the LaTeX renderer to use.

For inspiration, you might want to look at pandoc and how it offers options. While at it, you might find inspiration in pandoc also for semi-generalized template headers, and variables therein.

I notice this script uses a hardcoded lookup table of template paths.

Please instead use e.g. File::BaseDir to resolve XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_DATA_HOME.

If backwards-compatibility is needed for existing deployments,
current hardcoded paths can be added as fallback values when above environment variables are unset. That is possibly a violation of the XDG standard, but far better than only hardcoded paths, IMO.