This package provides an unofficial Typst template for writing computer science technical reports in the style used at El MegaProbe Lab (University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras). It includes a two-column technical report template.

It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or maintained by El MegaProbe Lab, the Department of Computer Science, or the University of Puerto Rico.

Note: This is only a template. You have to adapt the template to your own report, and discuss the structure and requirements of your report with your advisor!

The template writes the section headings for you — Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Future Work, Acknowledgments, References. You fill in the body of each one, plus any == subsections you want inside it.

Usage

typst init @preview/reprobe

Or in an existing document:

#import "@preview/reprobe:0.1.0": tech-report

#show: tech-report.with(
  title: "Blue",
  authors: (
    (name: "My Name Lastname", email: "email@org.edu", affiliation: 1),
  ),
  affiliations: (
    "Department, Faculty, University",
  ),
  abstract: [...],
  introduction: [...],
  methods: [...],
  results: [...],
  conclusions: [...],
  future-work: [...],
  acknowledgments: [...],
  bibliography: bibliography("refs.bib"),
)

Title

title: "Blue" renders as Blue: A Technical Report — the template appends the colon and the suffix. A title that already ends in the suffix is left alone. Change or drop it with title-suffix: "A Progress Report" or title-suffix: none.

Logo

Size it with logo-height: 2cm. The seal ships with the package; if you are not affiliated with UPR–Río Piedras, use logo: none or supply your own. Pass your own as an image(...) value rather than a path — a bare path string would be looked up inside the package instead of next to your document. The same applies to bibliography: bibliography("refs.bib").

Sections

Emitted in this order, each one skipped when you leave it out:

Abstract → Introduction → Methods → Results → Conclusions → Future Work → Acknowledgments → References

Acknowledgments and References are unnumbered; the rest are numbered 1., 2., …, and your subsections become 1.1, 1.1.1.

Write the abstract last — it belongs in the abstract: argument regardless of when you write it.

Anything you put after the show rule is placed at the end of the document, after the references. That is where appendices go:

= Appendix: Additional Measurements

Authors and affiliations

affiliation is an index into the affiliations list, or an array of indices for authors with more than one:

authors: (
  (name: "A. Researcher", email: "a@upr.edu", affiliation: 1),
  (name: "B. Researcher", email: "b@upr.edu", affiliation: (1, 2)),
),
affiliations: ("Dept. of Computer Science, UPR–RP", "MegaProbe Lab"),

Skip affiliations entirely and affiliation is printed under the name as plain text instead. Authors are laid out up to three per row.

References

Cite with @key. References are rendered in IEEE style; change that with bibliography-style: "apa". Anything you set on the bibliography(...) value yourself wins over the template’s defaults.

Other options

Development

To try changes before publishing, install the package into the @local namespace and import it as @local/reprobe:0.1.0:

# macOS
ln -s "$PWD" ~/Library/Application\ Support/typst/packages/local/reprobe/0.1.0
# Linux
ln -s "$PWD" ~/.local/share/typst/packages/local/reprobe/0.1.0

License

The template code is MIT licensed.

assets/logo.svg is the institutional seal of the University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras and is not covered by the MIT license — all rights in the seal remain with the University. See the scope note at the end of LICENSE. If you are not affiliated with UPR–Río Piedras, set logo: none or pass your own with logo: image("...").