Page numbering hardcoded in English

[Khoulaiz]

1. Create a letter with more than 1 page

Expected: For a DIN Letter I would expect a German numbering scheme

Actual: Numbering is using "Page 1 of 2"

[Sematre]

English is just the default. You can change it to German like this:

#show: letter-simple.with(
  // [...]
  page-numbering: (current-page, page-count) => [Seite #current-page von #page-count],
)

[Khoulaiz]

I know that I can change it. But why is English the default for a Letter following the German DIN standard? Everything else in this letter is in German. Sorry, but this doesn't make sense for me.

[Sematre]

The page numbering is the only place where in this library where there is a default English text. Everything else in this library is language independent.

Even tho this letter is following a German standard, documents written in Typst default to the English language. This is why I think it is the best choice to make English the default.

A good compromise could be to use the linguify library that can derive the correct translation from the document context. Would this work for you?

[ondohotola]

English is just the default. You can change it to German like this:

#show: letter-simple.with(
  // [...]
  page-numbering: (current-page, page-count) => [Seite #current-page von #page-count],
)

Is there a way of testing for text.lang and then doing a conditional?

And, how to I change the size of the text Page # of #? I like it a little smaller than the text in the letter.

[Sematre]

Is there a way of testing for text.lang and then doing a conditional?

You can get the current document language with this:

#context {
  let the_language = text.lang
  
  if the_language == "de" {
    "Deutscher Text!"
  } else {
    "English text!"
  }
}

And, how to I change the size of the text Page # of #? I like it a little smaller than the text in the letter.

The page-numbering parameter expects you to return a content type, so you can just call e.g. text(10pt) to make it smaller.

#show: letter-simple.with(
  // [...]
  page-numbering: (current-page, page-count) => text(10pt)[Seite #current-page von #page-count],
)

[ondohotola]

thanks.

I’ll use em though :-)-O

[Sematre]

This feature is now implemented and will be available in the upcoming 3.0 release.