Document Options

Every document carries a handful of settings, title, author, page size, whether it has a table of contents, that Typst and Markdown normally ask you to write out by hand at the top of the file. Martypex renders those settings as a Document Options card instead: a plain-language summary at the top of your document, with a full inspector one tap away.

The header card

With Live styling on, the very top of a document shows a card labelled Document Options, your document’s title in large type (or Untitled Document as a placeholder if none is set yet), and the author underneath if one is set. A pencil button opens the full inspector.

Document Options header card at the top of a document, on iPhone, light mode

Document Options header card at the top of a document, on iPhone, dark mode

Document Options header card at the top of a document, on iPad, light mode

Document Options header card at the top of a document, on iPad, dark mode

Tap the card to open the inspector directly. For a Typst document, it’s also reachable from the editor’s ••• overflow menu as Document Options….

What’s in the inspector

The inspector is grouped into four sections:

  • Core: Title, Author, and either an automatic date or one you set yourself.
  • Page: Paper size, margins, and portrait/landscape orientation, the same options as Page Setup.
  • Typography: Font, size, and line spacing.
  • Structure: A table-of-contents toggle, section numbering, and (for Typst documents) a Bibliography Style picker tied to the same setting as Citation Style.

Every field commits as soon as you change it, writing straight back to the document. If a change can’t be applied safely, for instance because the document’s existing setup is already unusual, Martypex shows an inline error rather than guessing at a rewrite.

Typst and Markdown, the same panel

The same card and inspector work for both dialects, just with a different destination underneath:

  • In a Typst document, the inspector writes and reads the leading #set document(...), #set page(...), #set text(...), #set par(...), #set heading(numbering: ...), and #outline() directives at the top of the file.
  • In a Markdown document, the same fields read and write a leading YAML frontmatter block (title, author, date, papersize, margin, orientation, mainfont, fontsize, linestretch, toc, number-sections) instead of raw --- lines. The compiled PDF carries the same document metadata either way, so a Markdown document’s title and author land in the exported PDF exactly as a Typst document’s would.

Bibliography Style is Typst-only in the inspector; a Markdown document’s citation formatting isn’t yet exposed there.

A Markdown document with Document Options driven by YAML frontmatter, on iPhone, light mode

A Markdown document with Document Options driven by YAML frontmatter, on iPhone, dark mode

A Markdown document with Document Options driven by YAML frontmatter, on iPad, light mode

A Markdown document with Document Options driven by YAML frontmatter, on iPad, dark mode