Hi,
I am trying to bold some part of text in a table but none of the technique I found in documentation works…
In the following example, data contains some value I want in bold format.
#table(
columns: (1fr, 1fr),
align: left,
table.cell([*#data:*]),
...
I read about using * *
here Table Function – Typst Documentation
I read about using text weight
here Text Function – Typst Documentation
But my text always appears without the bold format.
What am I doing wrong, please ?
Can you please show us the definition of data
? Because the above is not enough to reproduce your issue:
#let data = [Foo]
#table(
columns: (1fr, 1fr),
align: left,
[*#data:*],
)
I suspect something inside data
is forcing non-bold text
flokl
July 22, 2025, 12:14pm
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It could also be a problem with your font. Please add which font you are using.
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Oh sorry. I was not thinking the data could be a problem itself…
data is a struct in rust that can be formatted like this :
#let data = {f1:"some data", f2: "some other data", ...}
#table(
columns: (1fr, 1fr),
align: left,
[*#data.f1:*],
)
In my example, I try to use #data .f1 in bold.
And my font is : texgyrecursor-regular.ttf that I get from here : typst-as-lib/examples/fonts at main · Relacibo/typst-as-lib · GitHub
I find it very hard to try to help you without a MWE… Your code does not compile.
I’ve refactored to something that (perhaps?) you are trying to achieve…
#let data = (f1:"bold data", f2: "not bold data",)
#table(
columns: (1fr, 1fr),
align: left,
[*#data.f1:*], [#data.f2:],
)
Which leads to
In other words, this code works. Perhaps the font?
font seems fine as well, although it is rather thin:
Are you sure it isn’t bold? Can you maybe provide a screenshot?
I’ve downloaded your font as per the URL and put in my working directory with the following file:
// font-test.typ
#set text(font: "TeX Gyre Cursor")
#let data = (f1:"bold data", f2: "not bold data",)
#table(
columns: (1fr, 1fr),
align: left,
[*#data.f1:*], [#data.f2:],
)
Running:
$ typst compile font-test.typ --font-path .
with Typst 0.13.1 (on Arch Linux BTW), I get:
Output of fc-query
$ fc-query texgyrecursor-regular.otf
Pattern has 28 elts (size 32)
family: "TeX Gyre Cursor"(s)
familylang: "en"(s)
style: "Regular"(s)
stylelang: "en"(s)
fullname: "TeXGyreCursor-Regular"(s) "TeX Gyre Cursor"(s)
fullnamelang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
slant: 0(i)(s)
weight: 80(f)(s)
width: 100(f)(s)
foundry: "URW "(s)
file: "texgyrecursor-regular.otf"(s)
index: 0(i)(s)
outline: True(s)
scalable: True(s)
charset:
...
lang: aa|ab|ast|av|ay|ba|be|bg|bi|bin|br|bs|bua|ca|ce|ch|chm|co|cs|cv|cy|da|de|en|eo|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl|gn|gv|ho|hr|hu|ia|ig|id|ie|ik|io|is|it|kaa|ki|kk|kum|kv|ky|la|lb|lez|lt|lv|mg|mh|mk|mo|mt|nb|nds|nl|nn|no|nr|nso|ny|oc|om|os|pl|pt|rm|ro|ru|sah|sel|sh|sk|sl|sma|smj|smn|so|sq|sr|ss|st|sv|sw|tg|tk|tl|tn|tr|ts|tt|tyv|uk|uz|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|zu|an|crh|csb|fil|hsb|ht|jv|kj|ku-tr|kwm|lg|li|mn-mn|ms|na|ng|pap-an|pap-aw|rn|rw|sc|sg|sn|su|za|agr|ayc|bem|dsb|lij|mfe|mhr|miq|mjw|nhn|niu|sgs|szl|tpi|unm|wae|yuw(s)
fontversion: 72286(i)(s)
capability: "otlayout:DFLT otlayout:cyrl otlayout:latn"(s)
fontformat: "CFF"(s)
decorative: False(s)
postscriptname: "TeXGyreCursor-Regular"(s)
color: False(s)
symbol: False(s)
variable: False(s)
fonthashint: False(s)
order: 0(i)(s)
namedinstance: False(s)
fontwrapper: "SFNT"(s)
In my own humble opinion, it is a font problem.
Sorry for my entry data. In fact, I combine typst with rust.
I am a beginner using Typst and I make mistake about the type for “typst only use” with my “struct in rust” in my example. It is also why I need to create a example and I do not expose all my code.
Thank you very much to all of you. I will pay attention to police now.
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Just for follow-up…
I’ve added the texgyrecursor-bold.otf file from CTAN: /tex-archive/fonts/tex-gyre/opentype in my working directory. With the same code as my previous post, and the two font files, I get the desired text in bold.
So it was really a font question.
EDIT: And I’ve just found out that Typst does not support (yet) variable fonts.
Relates to Support variable fonts · Issue #185 · typst/typst · GitHub .
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