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A Typst template from and for students at Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT) writing their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis.

This repository is a fork of the OTH Regensburg Thesis Template by Korbinian Hutter, which itself is a fork of the HPI Thesis Template by Felix Hoffmann. The cover and declaration are ported from the BHT LaTeX template by Prof. Dr. Sebastian Tschirley.

Disclaimer

  • This template is not official.
  • Official BHT guidelines may differ from the ones used in this template.

Logo Usage

Please note the corporate design guidelines of the Berliner Hochschule für Technik. The BHT logo and design elements are subject to copyright of the Berliner Hochschule für Technik.

Example

Example title page

The title page above is the first page of the example document, which showcases all template features. The fully rendered version is available as example.pdf.

Features

  • BHT-style title page with logo, design elements, and corporate colors.
  • Support for both English and German language.
  • Suitable for both Bachelor’s and Master’s theses.
  • Ready-made front-matter sections in the example, including the BHT declaration (Erklärung / plagiarism statement) with a signature line, freely orderable via pre-toc.
  • Highly customizable metadata: title, optional subtitle, student name, student ID (Matrikelnummer), date, department (Fachbereich), study program, degree, and a freely ordered committee with per-person roles and institutions.
  • Flexible pre-toc front matter before the table of contents: a list of titled sections (e.g. confidentiality clause, statement on the use of AI tools, abstract, acknowledgements). Each section starts its own page unless it sets own-page: false (e.g. Kurzfassung and Abstract sharing one page).
  • Optional pre-body and post-body content around the main body plus list-of-figures() and list-of-tables() helpers. For a list of abbreviations, packages like glossarium work well.
  • Optional appendix content after the bibliography with “A.1.1.1”-style numbering.
  • Sensible defaults for tables (bold header row, thin horizontal rules) and figure captions, with configurable text sizes.
  • Configurable typography and layout options:
    • margin: Set custom page margins (left, right, top, bottom).
    • chapter-pagebreak: Start new chapters (level 1 headings) on a new page (default: true).
    • for-print: Optimize for printing with blank pages on odd numbers.
    • toc-depth: Control table of contents depth.
    • show-header: Display chapter title in page header.

Getting Started

typst init @preview/bht-thesis-unofficial

On typst.app, choose “Start from template” and search for bht-thesis-unofficial.

Local development

Run just install-local to install the working copy as a local package, then start a thesis from any directory:

typst init @local/bht-thesis-unofficial:0.1.0

To test in the typst.app web editor without the released package: run just webapp-bundle and upload the files from dist/webapp/ into an empty project. If the cover falls back to a serif font, also upload a sans font (e.g. Liberation Sans).

Configuration

An example configuration is located in example/.

#import "@preview/bht-thesis-unofficial:0.1.0": *

#show: project.with(
  title: "My Very Long, Informative, Expressive, and Definitely Fancy Title",
  subtitle: "An Adequate Subtitle",  // Optional
  name: "Toni Musterperson",
  student-id: "123456",
  date: "31 July 2026",
  degree: "Bachelor",
  // field: "Engineering",  // "Science" (B.Sc./M.Sc.) (default), "Engineering" (B.Eng./M.Eng.), "Arts" (B.A./M.A.)
  study-program: "Computer Science",
  department: "VI – Informatik und Medien",
  committee: (  // Shown on the cover in this order, entries with the same role share one header
    (role: "Advisor and First Examiner", name: "Prof. Dr. Kim Beispiel", institution: "Berliner Hochschule für Technik"),
    (role: "Second Examiner", name: "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robin Muster", institution: "Berliner Hochschule für Technik"),
  ),
  pre-toc: (  // Front-matter sections shown before the table of contents
    (title: "Kurzfassung", body: kurzfassung),
    (title: "Abstract", body: abstract, own-page: false),  // Continues on the Kurzfassung page
    // (title: "Statement on the Use of AI Tools", body: ai-statement),
    (title: "Plagiarism Statement", body: declaration),  // "Erklärung" in German theses
  ),
  // pre-body: [  // Optional content to be placed between the table of contents and the main body
  //   #list-of-figures()
  //   #list-of-tables()
  // ],
  bibliography: bibliography("references.bib"),
  // appendix: [  // Optional appendix, rendered after the bibliography with A.1.1.1 numbering
  //   = Additional Material
  //   ...
  // ],
  // post-body: [  // Optional back matter at the very end
  //   #list-of-figures()
  //   #list-of-tables()
  // ],
  // lang: "de",  // Switch all labels to German defaults
  // labels: (date-label: "Handed in on"),  // Override any label
  // typography: (font: "STIX Two Text", body-text-size: 12pt),
  // layout: (
  //   margin: (left: 35mm, right: 35mm, top: 30mm, bottom: 30mm),
  //   chapter-pagebreak: false,
  //   for-print: true,  // Optimize for printing (blank pages before odd-numbered ones)
  //   toc-depth: 2,
  //   show-header: false,
  // ),
  // appearance: (
  //   accent-color: bht-colors.blue,
  //   bht-logo-width: 2.25cm,
  // ),
)

... your content ...

Label keys

Every text the template renders on its own can be overridden via labels:, per language defaults are selected with lang:

contents, bibliography, submitted-by, student-id-label, department-prefix, university-prefix, university, thesis-submission, thesis-purpose, study-program-label, date-label, bachelor-thesis-kind, bachelor-degree, bachelor-abbreviation, master-thesis-kind, master-degree, master-abbreviation, chapter-supplement, appendix-supplement

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