checkitoff

Documents checkitoff version 0.1.0.

checkitoff fills in a reporting-guideline checklist — CONSORT, PRISMA, SPIRIT, STARD, STROBE — automatically. Mark where each item is answered in your manuscript; one compile produces the clean manuscript plus a completed grid citing the real page each item landed on.

The problem

A completed reporting-guideline grid is, today, filled in by hand — and it’s wrong the moment a paragraph moves a page. This works with real page numbers because a single compile can produce the manuscript and the grid together, sharing one introspection space.

Key features

• Mark once, get both documents. check(id, body) anchors body to item id — zero visual footprint in the real manuscript.
• A point-marker form for text already rendered by something else (check(id), no body) — for the one case a revision-tracking package like palimpsest already renders the text.
• na(id, reason: ...) declares an item not applicable, with a justification.
• Seven checklists, built in — CONSORT 2025, PRISMA 2020, SPIRIT 2025, STARD 2015, STROBE (×3 study designs) — each transcribed from its official source.
• A drafting overlay (--input preview=true) highlights every checked span, never present in the real, submitted manuscript.
• Quote the real wording with excerpt-of(id, quotes: true).
• Diagnostics, promotable to hard compile errors with strict: true.

Installation

#import "@preview/checkitoff:0.1.0": *
#import "@preview/contexture:0.1.0": bundle

Requires Typst 0.15 or later, specifically its --features bundle export (still experimental).

Full guide

The complete, progressive guide — a first checklist, marking items, diagnostics, quoting the wording, the page-break idiom, styling the grid, wiring a real project, the built-in checklists, and checkitoff in the contexture ecosystem — starts at Your first checklist.

Combining with other packages

checkitoff’s checklist(...) combines cleanly with palimpsest’s letter(...) and colophon’s report(...) in the same compile. See Combining packages.