Wiring a real project

Every example so far is one file, compiled directly. A real project instead usually keeps the manuscript’s prose in its own file and wires everything together from a small main.typ:

#show: contexture.bundle.with(
  template: my-manuscript-template,
  documents: (
    checklist(checklist: checklists.consort),
    // ... any other contexture-based package's satellite here too
  ),
)

#include "manuscript.typ"

checklist(checklist:, grid-template: auto) is what describes the checklist for contexture.bundle to build. checklist: has no default, for the same reason as render-checklist’s own checklist: (Reading the grid). grid-template: (auto = leave it alone) is applied to the grid separately from the manuscript’s own template: — most journals want CONSORT’s own official table layout on the checklist page, not the manuscript’s own house style.

Restricting a compile to fewer documents

--input only=<comma-separated names> restricts a single compile to just the manuscript plus the named documents — --input only= with nothing after it produces the manuscript alone, with no checklist at all. Handy for a fast preview while drafting a long manuscript, where rebuilding the grid every time is unwanted overhead.

Why doesn’t –input preview=true produce a checklist.pdf?

check()‘s preview highlighting adds a small box around each checked span, which can shift where a page breaks. A grid built from that layout could then report page numbers that don’t match the manuscript actually being submitted — worse than not producing one at all. checklist.pdf is only ever built from the one, real, plain compile.

Does the checklist compile when the manuscript doesn’t?

No. The manuscript and the checklist are two documents produced by the very same Typst compile, so a hard error anywhere in the manuscript aborts the whole compile, checklist.pdf included. A check()/na() diagnostic never does this on its own — that’s exactly what non-strict mode is for — only a genuine error in the manuscript itself (an undefined function, a malformed table, …) does.