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The `thanks` metadata is silently ignored in Typst format
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Bug description
When rendering a Quarto document with format: typst, the thanks content does not appear in the output PDF, while seeing superscript * on the title.
After investigating with keep-typ: true, it looks like Quarto passes the thanks value correctly into the generated .typ file, but the title block renders the footnote inside a place(float: true, scope: "parent") container. Typst does not currently render footnote contents correctly in that situation (typst/typst#5765)
This seems to make Quarto's documented thanks feature non-functional for Typst output.
Steps to reproduce
---
title: Test
thanks: "This should appear as a footnote"
format: typst
---
Hello.
Actual behavior
No footnote appears in the rendered PDF. The title is shown with a * marker.
Expected behavior
A footnote marked with * should appear at the bottom of the title page.
Your environment
- IDE: VS Code
- OS: macOS (26.3.1)
Quarto check output
quarto check
Quarto 1.9.37
[✓] Checking environment information...
Quarto cache location: /Users/kazuharu/Library/Caches/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.8.3: OK
Dart Sass version 1.87.0: OK
Deno version 2.4.5: OK
Typst version 0.14.2: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.9.37
Path: /Applications/quarto/bin
[✓] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: v2026.03.02
Chromium: 869685
(Chromium is outdated. Run "quarto uninstall chromium" then "quarto install chrome-headless-shell")
Chrome Headless Shell: (not installed)
VeraPDF: (not installed)
[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Using: TinyTex
Path: /Users/kazuharu/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
Version: 2026
[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
Using: Chrome found on system
Path: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Source: MacOS known location
[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK
[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
Version: 4.5.3
Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-arm64/Resources
LibPaths:
- /Users/kazuharu/Library/R/arm64/4.5/library
- /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-arm64/Resources/library
knitr: 1.50
rmarkdown: 2.29
[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK
[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
Version: 3.14.4
Path: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/jupyterlab/4.5.7/libexec/bin/python
Jupyter: 5.9.1
Kernels: julia-1.11, julia-1.10, julia-1.12, nbstata
NOTE: No Jupyter kernel for Python found
[✓] Checking Julia installation...
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