Diatypst

easy slides in typst

Features:

• easy delimiter for slides and sections (just use headings)
• sensible styling
• dot counter in upper right corner (like LaTeX beamer)
• adjustable color-theme
• default show rules for terms, code, lists, ... that match color-theme

Example Presentation

Title Slide	Section	Content	Outline

These example slides and a usage guide are available in the example Folder on GitHub as a .typ file and a compiled PDF

Usage

To start a presentation, initialize it in your typst document:

#import "@preview/diatypst:0.2.0": *
#show: slides.with(
  title: "Diatypst", // Required
  subtitle: "easy slides in typst",
  date: "01.07.2024",
  authors: ("John Doe"),
)
...

Then, insert your content.

• Level-one headings corresponds to new sections.
• Level-two headings corresponds to new slides.
• or manually create a new slide with a #pagebreak()

...

= First Section

== First Slide

#lorem(20)

diatypst is also available on the Typst Universe for easy importing into a project on typst.app

Options

all available Options to initialize the template with

Keyword	Description	Default
title	Title of your Presentation, visible also in footer	none but required!
subtitle	Subtitle, also visible in footer	none
date	a normal string presenting your date	none
authors	either string or array of strings	none
layout	one of "small", "medium", "large", adjusts sizing of the elements on the slides	"medium"
ratio	aspect ratio of the slides, e.g 16/9	4/3
title-color	Color to base the Elements of the Presentation on	blue.darken(50%)
count	whether to display the dots for pages in upper right corner	true
footer	whether to display the footer at the bottom	true
toc	whether to display the table of contents	true
footer-title	custom text in the footer title (left)	same as title
footer-subtitle	custom text in the footer subtitle (right)	same as subtitle

Quarto

This template is also available as a Quarto extension. To use it, add it to your project with the following command:

quarto add skriptum/diatypst/diaquarto

Then, create a qmd file with the following YAML frontmatter:

title: "Untitled"
...
format:
  diaquarto-typst: 
    layout: medium # small, medium, large
    ratio: 16/9 # any ratio possible 
    title-color: "013220" # Any Hex code for the title color (without #)

Inspiration

this template is inspired by slydst, and takes part of the code from it. If you want simpler slides, look here!

The word Diatypst is inspired by the ease of use of a Dia-projektor (German for Slide Projector) and the Diatype