What general recommendations for large touying slide set projects would you give?

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Hi! I am new to typst, and I am using it under Windows (win11), with latest typst. I am using typst with touying (metropolis theme) and want to split slide groups into subfiles.

This is the intended file layout:

|   main.typ
|
+---config
|       settings.typ

\---slides
        01_inhalt.typ
        90_beispiele.typ
        99_zusammenfassung.typ

I would like to have something like this as main.typ:

#include "config/settings.typ"
#include "slides/01_inhalt.typ"
#include "slides/90_beispiele.typ"
#include "slides/99_zusammenfassung.typ"

With each of the slides/*.typ using an import on settings.typ:

#import "../config/settings.typ": *
#show: metropolis-theme
#show: show-theorion
// content

But the changes to the metropolis theme from settings.typ seem not to appyl to the slides generated by the subfiles.

The settings.typ is (in parts), e.g.:

#let accents = (
  a1: rgb("#0088BB"), // blue / primary
  a1l: rgb("#66B3E6"), // lighter blue / lighter primary
  a2: rgb("#BB3300"), // red
  a3: rgb("#FA7D19"), // orange
  a4: rgb("#97BE0D"), // green
  a5: rgb("#FFC000"), // yellow
  a6: rgb("#93117E"), // violett
  d1: rgb("#1E1E1E"), // dark grey (as black substitution)
  l1: white,          // background
  d2: rgb("#A6A6A6"), // grey / muted 
  l2: rgb("#FFFF66"), // light yellow / code block background
  hy: rgb("#A6A6A6") // hyperlinks / muted by design
)
// ...
#show: metropolis-theme.with(
  aspect-ratio: "4-3",
  colors: brand-colors,
  footer: self => self.info.institution,
  config-info(
    title: [MYTITLE],
    author: [Christoph],
    date: [2025-12-15],
    institution: [My Institution]
  ),
  config-colors(
    primary: accents.a1,
    primary-light: accents.a1l,
    secondary: accents.a1,
    neutral-lightest: accents.l1,
    neutral-dark: accents.d1,
    neutral-darkest: accents.d1
  )
)

Probably, I would need to provide you with my settings.typ (I could, if necessary). But lets skip over my specific settings. Instead:

I wanted to ask openly what your general recommendations for large touying slide set project would be?

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Hi @cyberlytics, thanks for your question. You have categorized it in General, which probably didn’t give your post the needed visibility.

I would also ask you to revise your post’s title to be a complete question as per the question guidelines:

Good titles are questions you would ask your friend about Typst.

A good title makes the topic easier to grasp. We also hope by adhering to this, we make the information in this forum easy to find in the future.

If I read your post correctly, I don’t think your question is related to the size of your slideset, just that it has multiple files. I’d advise to take that into account when changing the title of your topic: what is the actual problem you’re facing?

(If you can’t edit your post due to a time limit, simply use the flag feature to tell a mod what title you want)