aufsatz

aufsatz is a Quarto extension providing a template for academic reports (such as student term papers or essays) via rendering to PDF using Typst

Requirements

Quarto is needed. See the Quarto documentation for more details.

Installation

To install this extension in your current directory (or into the Quarto project that you're currently working in), use the following command in the terminal:

quarto install extension sebastiansauer/aufsatz

You can also install and use Quarto extensions via R. See the Get Started Quarto documentation for details.

Quickstart

Just use a Quarto template that bundles a .qmd starter file. In the terminal, run:

quarto use template sebastiansauer/aufsatz

Open the downloaded folder in RStudio or Positron or some other text editor. Hit Render to see the rendered PDF.

Here's an image of the rendered PDF file of template_no_r_packages_needed.qmd.

You don't need any installed R packages for this example.

See this video on YouTube for a demonstration (in German language).

Template using some R packages

Open template.qmd to see an example using some R packages. You can find the list of needed R packages in analyse.r. Open template.pdf to see the rendered PDF.

Enter your text

Just replace the example value in template.qmd with your own text.

Limitations

Some parts of the report template are currently hard-coded to German language terms, such as "Hochschule" (for "university").

Feel free to change typst-template.typ to match your needs.

Update

Updating to the latest version:

In the terminal, run

quarto update sebastiansauer/aufsatz

Removing the extension

In the terminal, run

quarto rmeove sebastiansauer/aufsatz

DOI

Have fun!