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Slide Counters and Progress

Touying provides a set of counters and utilities for tracking and displaying presentation progress.

Slide Counter​

utils.slide-counter is the primary Typst counter that increments on every slide.

// Get the current slide number
#context utils.slide-counter.get()

Use it in a custom footer:

#import "@preview/touying:0.7.4": *
#import themes.default: *

#show: default-theme.with(
  aspect-ratio: "16-9",
  config-page(
    footer: context [Slide #utils.slide-counter.get()],
  ),
)

= Section

== First Slide

Content here.

== Second Slide

More content.
Touying example output

Total Slide Number​

utils.last-slide-number holds the number of the last slide before the appendix. This is what you typically want to show as the denominator in a "slide X of Y" footer:

#context utils.slide-counter.get() + " / " + utils.last-slide-number

Progress Bar​

utils.touying-progress provides a ratio (0.0–1.0) representing how far through the presentation you are:

#utils.touying-progress(ratio => {
  // ratio is a float between 0.0 and 1.0
  box(width: ratio * 100%, height: 4pt, fill: primary)
})

This is how the metropolis and aqua themes implement their progress bars.

Appendix​

The appendix show rule stops the slide counter so that appendix slides do not change the total shown in the footer:

#import "@preview/touying:0.7.4": *
#import themes.simple: *

#show: simple-theme

= Main Section

== Introduction

The slide count increments normally here.

== Second Slide

Still counting.

#show: appendix

= Appendix

== Backup Slide

The footer still shows the count from the last main slide.
Touying example output