Checkitoff fills in a reporting-guideline checklist — CONSORT, PRISMA, SPIRIT, STARD, STROBE — automatically. Mark where each item is answered in your manuscript; one compile produces the clean manuscript plus a completed grid citing the real page each item landed on.

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The problem

A completed reporting-guideline grid is, today, filled in by hand — and it’s wrong the moment a paragraph moves a page. Written once at submission, re-checked (or not) at every revision, it drifts from the manuscript it’s supposed to describe.

This works with real page numbers because Typst’s experimental bundle export lets a single compile produce several documents that share one introspection space: the grid can query() the manuscript and know its actual, final page — because they’re composed together in the same pass, not two unrelated files that happen to sit next to each other.

Key features

• Mark once, get both documents. check(id, body) anchors body to item id of whichever checklist is active — zero visual footprint in the real manuscript, and the item’s real page shows up in the grid automatically.
• A point-marker form for text rendered by something else. check(id) — no body — registers an item’s coverage without rendering anything, for the one case check(id, body) can’t cover cleanly: a passage a revision-tracking package (like @preview/palimpsest) already renders.
• na(id, reason: ...). Declares an item not applicable, with a justification — turns “item never mentioned” from an oversight into a documented, deliberate choice.
• Seven checklists, built in. CONSORT 2025, PRISMA 2020, SPIRIT 2025, STARD 2015, and STROBE (cohort / case-control / cross-sectional) — each transcribed from its official source, including the real column widths, section colors, and citation notice, so the grid looks like the real thing by default.
• A drafting overlay. --input preview=true lightly highlights every check()'d span, tagged with its item id — a drafting aid only, never present in the real, submitted manuscript.pdf.
• Quote the real wording. excerpt-of(id, quotes: true) re-emits the exact text checked under an item — for a supplementary compliance appendix some journals want, with the wording quoted next to each item.
• Diagnostics. An item never covered, a blank check(), an id that matches nothing, a conflicting check()+na() — flagged visibly in the grid, or turned into a hard compile error with strict: true so nothing slips through right before submission.
• Bring your own checklist. A checklist is plain data (name, full-name, items, plus optional style/headers/citation) — a house checklist or an emerging guideline not built in yet uses exactly the same mechanism.

Installation

Import the package, plus contexture — the small, package-agnostic dependency that actually assembles the bundle compile (checkitoff itself never calls Typst’s own document(...)):

#import "@preview/checkitoff:0.1.0": *
#import "@preview/contexture:0.1.0": bundle

Requires Typst 0.15 or later, specifically its --features bundle export (still experimental — Typst prints a warning about this on every compile, which is expected).

Quick start

check()/na() work directly in a single ordinary file, no bundle involved:

#import "@preview/checkitoff:0.1.0": *

The primary outcome was #check("6a")[change in disease activity score
from baseline to week 12], assessed by a rater blinded to group
assignment.

A real project wires the manuscript and a checklist together through contexture.bundle:

#import "@preview/checkitoff:0.1.0": *
#import "@preview/contexture:0.1.0": bundle

#show: bundle.with(
  template: my-journal-template,
  documents: (checklist(checklist: checklists.consort),),
)

#include "manuscript.typ"

typst compile --features bundle --format bundle main.typ

produces manuscript.pdf — exactly what you submit, no trace of any check() call — and checklist.pdf, the completed grid, citing the real page numbers manuscript.pdf was just laid out with, in this same compile.

Built-in checklists

Every entry is transcribed from its official source document, including its citation and license notice — reproduced verbatim in the “citation” block at the bottom of checklist.pdf — and its real column widths and section colors, read directly from the source file rather than guessed.

Documentation

• The checkitoff guide — the full user guide, progressive from a first checklist through diagnostics, styling, wiring a real project, and combining checkitoff with @preview/palimpsest in the same compile — every result shown is a real compiled screenshot, not a simulation.

Part of the contexture ecosystem

Built on @preview/contexture, the small shared engine behind every multi-document compile in this ecosystem. Combines cleanly with:

• @preview/palimpsest — manuscript revisions and a reviewer response letter that cites the real pages.
• @preview/colophon — a companion audit of the composed manuscript (word counts, reading time, a figure/table inventory) — no check()/na() needed.

License

MIT