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A Typst template for Bachelor and Master theses at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science (FMI) of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

It follows the Gestaltungshinweise zu Abschlussarbeiten an der Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik. It creates the cover page(s) with all mandatory information, the page numbering, the table of contents, lists of figures, tables and listings, a list of abbreviations, the appendix and the declaration of academic integrity.

Cover page and first chapter

Warning: This template is not affiliated with the University of Jena. The university logo is not included in this package, because it is the property of the University of Jena. See Getting the logo for how to download it.

Usage

Create a new project from the template, either in the Typst web app (“Start from template”) or on the command line:

typst init @preview/community-fmi-jena-thesis

Or use it in an existing document:

#import "@preview/community-fmi-jena-thesis:0.2.0": *

#set text(lang: "en") // or "de"

#show: fsu.with(
  title: [Title of Your Thesis],
  author: "Your Name",
  uni-logo: image("Bildmarke_blue_23cm.png", width: 10cm),

  cover-english: (
    faculty: "Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science",
    university: "Friedrich Schiller University Jena",
    type-of-work: "Bachelor Thesis",
    academic-degree: [Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)],
    field-of-study: "Computer Science",
    author-info: "1 April 2001 in Wolkenkuckucksheim, Germany",
    assessor: [Prof. Dr. First Person],
    place-and-submission-date: "Jena, 1 April 2025",
  ),

  abstract: [Abstract here.],
  // Mandatory unless the thesis is written in German:
  abstract-german: [Zusammenfassung hier.],
  abbreviations: (
    ("API", "Application Programming Interface"),
  ),
  bibliography: bibliography("bib.yaml"),
)

= Introduction
...

The logo is only available to members of the university, so you have to download it yourself:

  1. Open Templates in Corporate Design and scroll down to the login form.
  2. Log in with your URZ username and password.
  3. Open Logo-Vorlagen → Uni Jena – Bild-Wort-Marke → 23cm → png.
  4. Download Uni Jena – Bildmarke_blue_23cm and save it as Bildmarke_blue_23cm.png next to your main.typ.
  5. Uncomment the uni-logo line in main.typ:
    uni-logo: image("Bildmarke_blue_23cm.png", width: 10cm),

The same folder also has black and white versions and a manual on how to use the logo.

Tip: You get a German cover page with cover-german, which takes the same keys. Pass both cover-german and cover-english to get both.

Parameters

Parameter Default Description
title [Your Title] Title of the thesis.
author "Author" Your name.
paper-size "a4" Paper size.
uni-logo none Content shown at the top of the cover page(s), e.g. image("Bildmarke_blue_23cm.png", width: 10cm).
cover-german none German cover page, see the keys below.
cover-english none English cover page, see the keys below.
abstract none Abstract, shown on its own page.
abstract-german none German abstract (“Zusammenfassung”), shown after abstract. Mandatory if the thesis is not written in German (PO § 20 Abs. 8); otherwise the document does not compile.
preface none Preface, shown after the table of contents.
table-of-contents outline(depth: 2) The table of contents, or none.
appendix none Appendix content. Use == headings for its sections; they are numbered A, B, C, …
abbreviations () Array of (short, long) pairs or a dictionary (short: long). Every occurrence of an abbreviation in the text links to the list of abbreviations.
expand-first-abbreviation true Write the first occurrence of an abbreviation as “long (short)”.
bibliography none The result of bibliography(...).
declaration auto Declaration of academic integrity. auto picks English or German based on the text language, none omits it, and content replaces it.
chapter-pagebreak true Start every chapter on a new page. The Gestaltungshinweise require every part of the thesis to start on a new page.
two-sided true Start chapters and front matter on odd pages, for double-sided printing.
print false Produce the print version: turns off external-link-circle and turns on use-print-margins.
external-link-circle auto Mark links to websites with a small circle. auto follows print (on for screen, off for print).
use-print-margins auto Use print-margin instead of screen-margin. auto follows print.
screen-margin (x: 3cm, y: 2.8cm) Page margins of the screen version.
print-margin auto Page margins of the print version. auto uses the margins recommended by the examination office: left (inside) 40 mm, right (outside) 20 mm, top and bottom 30 mm.
figure-index, table-index, listing-index (enabled: false, title: auto) Lists of figures, tables and code listings. They are only shown if the document contains such figures.

The cover page dictionaries accept these keys, all optional: faculty, university, type-of-work, academic-degree, field-of-study, author-info (date and place of birth), assessor and place-and-submission-date.

Headings and other text inserted by the template follow the document language (#set text(lang: "de") or "en").

Important: The English declaration of academic integrity is the university’s English version; the German text is based on the university’s German version. Check both against the current form of your examination office (available in Hanfried) before you submit your thesis. If it differs, pass your own text via declaration.

The package also exports todo[...] for visible notes and blockquote[...] for highlighted quotes.

Customizing the template

New projects created from the template come with a file called custom.typ. It is the place for your own changes, for example:

  • a different look for links,
  • your own version of todo,
  • a different heading numbering or font size,
  • new helper functions, like a box for side notes.

custom.typ explains step by step how it works and contains ready-made examples. To use an example, delete the // at the start of its lines. Because the file belongs to your project, your changes stay when you update the template to a newer version.

In short, there are two kinds of changes:

  1. Functions (#let todo(it) = ...). A function in custom.typ with the same name as one of the template replaces it, because main.typ imports custom.typ after the template.
  2. Rules (set and show). Put them inside custom-rules in custom.typ. main.typ applies them to your chapters with #show: custom-rules, and they win over the template’s own rules:
    #let custom-rules(body) = {
  show link: set text(fill: blue) // blue links
  set heading(numbering: "1.1")   // "1.1" instead of "1.1."
  body
}

If you started from an older version of the template and have no custom.typ, create it with the content above and add these two lines to main.typ: #import "custom.typ": * directly after the template import, and #show: custom-rules directly after #show: fsu.with(...).

To learn more about rules, see the Typst styling guide.

The template works without other packages. These packages from Typst Universe work well for theses:

License

The template code is licensed under MIT-0. The University of Jena’s name, logo and fonts belong to the University of Jena.