Excellently type-set a cute little zine about your favorite topic!

Providing your eight pages in order will produce a printer page with the content in a layout ready to be folded into a zine! The content is wrapped before movement so that padding and alignment are respected.

Below is the template and its preview. The full manual is available on GitHub attached to the release it documents.

#import "@preview/zen-zine:0.2.1": zine

#set document(author: "Tom", title: "Zen Zine Example")
#set text(font: "Libertinus Serif", lang: "en")

// this page size is what the printer page size is
// if building a digitial zine, the page will be re-set
// so that the PDF pages align with the zine page size
// and not the printer page size
#set page("us-letter")

// update heading rule to show that style is preserved
#show heading.where(level: 1): hd => {
  pad(top: 2em, text(10em, align(center, hd.body)))
}

#show: zine.with(
  // whether to make output PDF pages align with zine pages (true)
  // or have the zine pages located onto a printer page (false)
  // with this code, you can provide which kind you want on the command line
  //   typst compile input.typ output.pdf --input digital=(true|false)
  digital: json(bytes(sys.inputs.at("digital", default: "false"))),
  // zine-page-margin: 0.25in // margin of zine pages
  // draw-border: true // draw border boxes in printing mode
)

// provide your content pages in order and they
// are placed into the zine template positions.
// the content is wrapped before movement so that
// padding and alignment are respected.

= 1

#pagebreak()

= 2

#pagebreak()

== 3
#lorem(50)

#pagebreak()

== 4

#pagebreak()

= 5
#v(1fr)
five

#pagebreak()

six

#pagebreak()

= 7
seven

#pagebreak()

$ 8 $

Development

Using just and showman to help aid development.

After installing just, the additional initialization recipes are in the justfile.

just init-showman # create a python3 venv and install showman for packaging
just install # symlink local clone to local package area for testing