Emilia Galotti - Typst Drama Template

This repository showcases the use of Typst for formatting screenplays using a custom template drama.typ. The primary purpose is to demonstrate how to format classic dramas, like Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, in a well-structured way. The first act of Emilia Galotti is provided here as an example of how to use the drama.typ template.

Repository Contents

• drama.typ: A Typst template that provides functions and structures for formatting a drama, including acts, scenes, character lines, stage directions, and character lists.
• main.typ: The first act of Emilia Galotti formatted with drama.typ.

Features of the drama.typ Template

Template Components

• act(title, body): Formats each act with the title centered and includes the body of the act.
• scene(title, body): Formats each scene, centering the title and adding the scene body.
• scene-description(body): Formats the scene description in an inset block, used for stage directions at the beginning of a scene.
• regie(body) and inline-regie(body): Italicizes stage directions, where regie is for full paragraphs and inline-regie is for inline directions within dialogue.
• setupDrama(title, characters, numbering, paper): Initializes the drama document with a title, character list, and custom page settings.

Usage

1. Define Characters: Each character is defined with a full name and, optionally, a shortened name. For example:

   let emilia = (full: "Emilia Galotti", short: "Emilia")

2. Initialize the Drama: The setupDrama function is used to set up the play’s metadata, such as title and character list. It returns dictionaries that maps the characters to functions. Example:

   let (character-table, character-speaks,
       character-dict, character-print-dict,
       template) = setupDrama(
       title: "Emilia Galotti",
       paper: "a5",
       characters:
       (
       (description: "", characters: (emilia)),
       (description: "Eltern der Emilia", characters: (odoardo, claudia)),
       )
   )

   the character-table() function produces a nicely formatted Table of all Characters in the drama.

   

   You can then use the template

   #show template

3. Creating Acts and Scenes: Use actand scene to define the structure. For example:

   #act("Erster Aufzug")[
       #scene("Erster Auftritt")[
           #scene-description[
               //scene-characters is a custom function
               #scene-characters((prinz, kammerdiener))
               #regie[Ein Kabinett des Prinzen.]
           ]
           #prinzsays(instructio: "(an einem
           Arbeitstische voller Briefschaften und
           Papiere, deren einige er durchläuft)")[
           Klagen, nichts als Klagen! Bittschriften,
           nichts als Bittschriften! --- Die
           traurigen Geschäfte; und man beneidet
           uns noch! --- Das glaub ich; wenn wir
           allen helfen könnten:
           dann wären wir zu beneiden. --- Emilia?
           #inline-regie[Indem er noch eine von den
           Bittschriften aufschlägt und nach dem
           unterschriebenen Namen sieht.] Eine
           Emilia? --- //truncated
           ]
           #kammerdienersays[Nein.]
       ]
   ]

   

4. Retrieve character speech functions

   Use the dictionary to retrieve the character speech functions like so:

       #let prinzsays = character-speaks.der-prinz

   Also if you want to print the character names you can use the character-print-dict

       #let camillo = character-print-dict.camillo
       #regie[#camillo is going away]

   The character-dict is simply to retrieve all character names as string.

For more information feel free to look at the example