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The untypsignia is a 3rd-party, unofficial, unendorsed Typst package that exposes commands for rendering, as content texts, some typesetters names in a stylized fashion, emulating their respective insignia, i.e., marks by which they are known.

Name

The package name is a blend of:

  • “un”, from “unofficial”,
  • “typ”, from “Typst”, and
  • “signia”, from “insignia”, which means marks by which anything is known.

Description

The typical use case of untypsignia in Typst is to emulate a given typesetting system’s mark, if available, when referring to them, in sentences like: “This document is typeset in XYZ”, as traditionally done in TeX systems and derivatives thereof.

Currently available insignia emulations include:

  • TeX,
  • LaTeX, and
  • typst.

Font Requirements

For best emulating the rendering of “typst”, the "Buenard" font Buenard - Google Fonts must be installed, as to best approach the rendering shown in Typst’s own documentation, shown below:

typst

For the TeX system and it’s derivatives, the "New Computer Modern" font is required.

Usage

The package exposes the following few, parameterless, functions:

  • #texmark(),
  • #latexmark(), and
  • #typstmark().

Each such command to output their respective namesake signus emulation, in the document’s current text settings, with the exception of font — meaning text size, color, etc… will apply to the signus emulation.

Aditionally, the signus emulation is produced, as contexts text inside a box — hence not images — so as to avoid hyphenation to take place.

Example

#set page(width: auto, height: auto, margin: 12pt, fill: rgb("19181f"))
#set par(leading: 1.5em)
#set text(font: "TeX Gyre Termes", fill: rgb("80f4b6"))

#import "@preview/untypsignia:0.1.0": *

#let say() = [I prefer #typstmark() over #texmark() or #latexmark().]

#for sz in (20, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8) {
  set text(size: sz * 1pt)
  say()
  linebreak()
}

This example results in a 1-page document like this one:

Compiled Example

Citing

This package can be cited with the following bibliography database entry:

untypsignia-package:
  type: Web
  author: Naaktgeboren, C.
  title:
    value: "untypsignia: unofficial typesetter's insignia emulations"
  url: https://github.com/cnaak/untypsignia.typ
  version: 0.1.0
  date: 2024-08