These unofficial templates enable you to write Typst documents in the TU Darmstadt corporate design.

Disclaimer

Please ask your supervisor if you are allowed to use Typst and one of these templates for your thesis or other documents. Note that these templates are not checked by TU Darmstadt for correctness. Thus, these templates don’t guarantee completeness or correctness. For notes about publishing on TUbama see Publishing.

Implemented Templates

The templates copy the corresponding LaTeX templates found here: tuda_latex_templates. Note that there may be visual differences between the original LaTeX template and the Typst version. Feel free to open an issue here if you find one!

For missing features, ideas or other problems, feel free to open an issue as well. Contributions are also welcome.

Template	Preview	Example	Scope
tudapub		example_tudapub.pdf example_tudapub.typ	Master and Bachelor theses
tudaexercise		Example File	Exercises
not-tudabeamer-2023		Example File	Presentations

Usage

To create a new Typst project based on one of these templates locally:

# for tudapub
typst init @preview/athena-tu-darmstadt-thesis
cd athena-tu-darmstadt-thesis

# for tudaexercise
typst init @preview/athena-tu-darmstadt-exercise
cd athena-tu-darmstadt-exercise

# for not-tudabeamer-2023
typst init @preview/not-tudabeamer-2023
cd not-tudabeamer-2023

You can also create a project on the Typst web app based on these templatess.

mkdir my_thesis && cd my_thesis
mkdir templates && cd templates
git clone https://github.com/tuda-typst/tuda-typst-templates

Logo and Font Setup

Download the TUDa logo from download.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/protected/ULB/tuda_logo.pdf and put it into the assets/logos folder. Since Typst 0.14.0, you can use the logo PDF file directly. If you use an earier version of Typst, see below for instructions on how to convert the logo to an SVG file.

cd assets/logos
./convert_logo.sh

Also download the required fonts Roboto and XCharter:

cd assets/fonts
./download_fonts.sh

Optionally, you can install all fonts in the folders in fonts on your system. Alternatively, you can also use Typst’s --font-path option or install them in a folder and add the folder to the TYPST_FONT_PATHS environment variable.

Note: wget might not be available to you. You may replace the command with something like curl <url> -o <filename> -L

#import "templates/tuda-typst-templates/tudapub/template/lib.typ": *

#show: tudapub.with(
  title: [
    My Thesis
  ],
  author: "My Name",
  accentcolor: "3d"
)

= My First Chapter
Some Text

Compiling Your Typst File

typst watch main.typ --font-path assets/fonts/

This will watch your file and recompile it to a PDF when the file is saved. For writing, you can use VS Code with Tinymist. Alternatively, use the Typst web app. Note that you’ll have to upload your logos and fonts manually.

Note that we add --font-path to ensure that the correct fonts are used. Due to a bug, Typst sometimes uses the font Roboto condensed instead of Roboto. To be on the safe side, double-check the embedded fonts in the pdf: There should be no Roboto condensed. Removing Roboto condensed from your system prevents this issue.

Publishing on TUbama

For publishing your compiled document (e.g. thesis) on TUbama, the document has to comply with the pdf/A standard. Therefore, set the PDF standard for compiling for the final submission:

typst compile main.typ --font-path assets/fonts/ --pdf-standard a-2b

In case this should not yield a PDF which is accepted by TUbama, you can use a converter to convert from the Typst output to PDF/A, but check that there are no losses during the conversion.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md