Academic Slides in Typst: An actual use case example using touying and touying-unistra-pristine

[spidersouris]

A few days ago, someone on the Typst Discord server asked the community if anybody had ever used touying or polylux to create academic presentations.

I recently had to do a presentation for a research paper that was accepted to a conference, and I used touying and my custom theme (touying-unistra-pristine) to create the slides. I thought it could be interesting to share such a real use case with the Typst community.

To show what can be achieved with touying and custom themes, I’ve published the full, extensively commented Typst code and the PDF output of these slides on my touying theme’s GitHub repo. The relevant files are acl25.typ and acl25.pdf: https://github.com/spidersouris/touying-unistra-pristine/tree/main/examples

In addition, here are a couple of page examples as screenshots:

[willis]

That’s very helpful, the comments throughout your paper file are very extensive and explain the code very well. I used touying exclusively for my lecture slides in my courses, but I definitely learned more about the package from your comments.