typst-show.typ is not recognizing variable from typst-template.typ

[iotaaemilius]

Description

I am very new to quarto and I would love to use it with typst, with which I wrote my papers until now. However, I have the problem that the typst-show.typ file does not recognize the variable given by template-show.typ. I have all my files in the same folder. And no .yml file. Here is the code, the variable "article" not recognized in the typst-show file:

##QMD-file

---
title: "My Thesis"
author: "John Doe"
format:
  typst:
    template-partials: 
      - typst-template.typ
      - typst-show.typ
---

# title 

##typst-show

#show: article.with(
  $if(title)$,
    title: $title$,
  $endif$,
  $if(author)$,
    author: $author$,
  $endif$,
)

##typst-template

#let article(
  title: "Proposal",
  author: "Name",
  //date: "2023-10-01",
  paper: "A4",
  body, 
) = {
  set document(title: title, author: author, date:  date)
  set page(size: paper, margin: 2cm)
  set text(font: "Times New Roman", size: 12pt)

 page(align(left + top )[
    body
  ]) 
}

I use Nvim v.0.110 and Arch linux. Quarto 1.7.6. Typst 0.13.1.

Are there maybe any packages or dependencies I missed? Do I need more files?

[mcanouil]

Why not follow the documentation about those files and follow the default one?

• https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html#typst-partials

Note that authors gets normalised, so you need to use by-author:

• https://quarto.org/docs/journals/authors.html

There are already a lot of Typst templates for Quarto, I suggest looking again at the documentation and looking at the extensions:

• https://m.canouil.dev/quarto-extensions/#category=typst

[iotaaemilius]

Thank you very much. It actually helped finding my error, it seems that the way I need to distribute commas changed. And after deleting the commas before and after the if statements it started to work, even though I still get warnings about expected commas.

[christopherkenny]

There's a few things going on here on the typst-show side:

1. The commas are off. They should not follow the pandoc commands.
2. You need to put quotes around things that you expect to become strings, such as "$title$", rather than $title$.
3. The corresponding yaml for paper should be papersize, so you would want paper: "$papersize$"

Then on the typst-template side:

1. page takes a paper argument, not a size one.
2. Page sizes are case sensitive, so "a4", rather than "A4".
3. set document(...) needs date to be a datetime
4. Since you call body within content, it needs to be #body.

All together, up to handling datetimes:

typst-template.typ:

#let article(
  title: "Proposal",
  author: "Name",
  //date: "2023-10-01",
  paper: "a4",
  body,
) = {
  set document(title: title, author: author)//, date:  date)
  set page(paper: paper, margin: 2cm)
  set text(font: "Times New Roman", size: 12pt)

 page(align(left + top )[
    #body
  ])
}

typst-show.typ:

#show: article.with(
  $if(title)$
    title: "$title$",
  $endif$
  $if(author)$
    author: "$author$",
  $endif$
  $if(date)$
  date: [$date$],
  $endif$
  $if(papersize)$
  paper: "$papersize$",
  $endif$
)

Ideally, you want to set things up as a full template, for example with: quarto create extension, which will help you avoid these types of problems by giving you the proper syntax for pagesizes, titles, authors, etc.