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Talk repo — slides, examples, and short paper about using Typst for consistent document formatting. See the CLT2026 talk page.
A document should look professional. But then comes the chaos: jumping page numbers, changing fonts, inconsistent bullet points. This costs time and nerves. Typst offers a way out: it separates content from layout. Once the template is in place, the focus is solely on the content.
This talk builds on the Typst talk from CLT2025 and gets practical: In live demos I show how everyday documents are created - with consistent formatting.
Typst is a modern open-source typesetting system with a flat learning curve. A practical step towards digital sovereignty. Goal: understand it and want to try it yourself.
No knowledge of Typst or any other programming language required.
Optional: talk "Typst - a modern alternative to TeX" (CLT2025) as an introduction.
A more detailed description can be found in short-paper/main.pdf.
The presentation slides are available at presentation.pdf.
The letter example is available at letter-example/letter.pdf.
The paper example is available at paper-example/paper.pdf.
The cheat sheet example is available at cheat-sheet-example/cheat-sheet.pdf.
The presentation examples are available at:
Tip
The presentation also covers workflows that work entirely without the command line.
Requires just.
just— build presentationjust all— build everythingjust short-paper— build short paperjust presentation— build presentationjust letter-example— build letter examplejust paper-example— build paper examplejust cheat-sheet-example— build cheat sheet examplejust presentation-example-simple— build simple presentation examplejust presentation-example-more-complex— build more complex presentation example
just is a command runner that invokes the appropriate typst compile command for each target, producing the corresponding PDF file.
The PDFs are compiled with either the a-2u or a-2a PDF/A standard: a-2u requires Unicode text mapping, while a-2a additionally requires full accessibility tagging.
The slides can be presented with pdfpc, a PDF presenter tool that displays speaker notes on a second screen and supports timers and annotations.
just presentation generates both presentation.pdf and presentation.pdfpc (the presenter notes file).
Use just presentation-pdfpc to open the slides in pdfpc, or just presentation-pdfpc-watch to recompile automatically while editing.