This package allows for using Typst for creating letters using the official letter format of Paderborn 6FB6 University. This repository contains the required Typst templates, additional assets, and usage examples.
You can use the template either with the web application typst.app or with the Typst command line interface (CLI).
Paderborn University uses Karla as font for its official document, which is not installed by default on most systems. Therefore, you need to install the font on your system to use the template. The font is available as a variable-width font, but Typst does not yet support variable-width fonts. Therefore, you need to install the static font weights. The template uses the following font weights Regular (400) and Bold (700). You need to install at these weights in addition to any other weights you want to use.
For legal reasons, the font cannot be included in this repository, but you can download the font from Google Fonts. To install the font, download the font files and extract them to a directory of your choice and make them available to Typst by setting the TYPST_FONT_DIR environment variable. You can check whether the required variants are installed and accessible by typst by running
typst fonts --variants
You can use the template by installing it from the Typst package registry with the following command:
typst init @preview/upb-letter:0.1.0 my-letterAdapt the template in my-letter/main.typ to your liking to configure the sender/receiver address, subject, date, etc.
You can compile the document with the following command:
typst compile my-letter/main.typThis will create a PDF file in the my-letter directory. You can also use the typst watch command to automatically compile the document whenever you save changes.
You can use the template by creating a new document in the Typst web application and search for the package @preview/upb-letter. This will create a new document with the template. You can then adapt the template to your liking.
Christian Plessl christian.plessl@uni-paderborn.de