How to Add Writing Ideas to a Document

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What is the best way to retrieve template argument outside the template?

Hey maucejo, if your colors value is read-only and always the same regardless of the template parameters, you can expose it as a global variable in your template file, for example: // template.typ #let colors = (primary: red, secondary: blue) // main.typ #import "template.typ": colors, template #show: template.with(...) // does not affect 'colors' The colors are #colors.primary and #colors.secondary However, if the value of colors depends on the parameters specified by the template, then yo…

Or if you want to configure the document from the command line:

Can I configure my document (e.g. draft/release version, color theme) when creating a PDF without modifying the Typst file directly?

There absolutely is: the sys.inputs dictionary contains values that have been set from the command line, via the --input key=value syntax. To my knowledge, the web app currently doesn’t have a way to put values into that dictionary, so be aware of that. It’s often useful to have default values for these parameters, and check whether values are valid. Let’s say you want to assume --input theme=light and --input solutions=false, you could process the sys.inputs dictionary like this: let theme = …