[idea:standalone-idea-pages]2026-08-20

Standalone pages for ideas

When you compile a rookery with Rheo, each idea that you declare will produce its own standalone page. When you link to an idea using a hyperlink, by default it will link to that idea’s standalone page. (To link to the page in which the idea was actually declared, see #hyperlink.)

The standalone page will be minted at ideas/<idea-name>.html, where <idea-name> is the name you give explicitly or the one that is implicitly generated. The ideas directory is configurable through the prefix setting (see the site-config reference).

Concepts

[idea:footnotes]Footnotes

A footnote belongs to the idea in which you write it, just as citations do. So that rookery can track them correctly, you need to use the footnote function imported from rookery in ideas, rather than the Typst native function. (Using Typst’s own #footnote will cause a compilation error.)

#import "@rookery/core:0.1.0": idea, footnote
#idea("etal")[
  A claim#footnote[The evidence.] worth qualifying.
]

Footnote numbering is idea-local. This means that there may be two footnotes labeled 1 on the same page, if two ideas with footnotes are hatched in that context.¹

Footnote listings occur at the end of each idea.² On a standalone page, footnotes appear before the context and backlinks listings.

A footnote written outside an idea’s context proxies the native Typst function so that it behaves normally.

What you write inside a footnote belongs to the idea as well, and not to the footnote. A citation in a footnote is claimed by the surrounding idea and listed in its References,³ and a window or an @idea: reference in a footnote registers its backlink exactly as it would in the idea’s own prose.

Footnotes

^ This idea’s own first footnote. The idea below has one too, also numbered 1.
^ Ideas carry their footnotes everywhere they appear in the rookery—their hatching context, their standalone page 8, and their windows 9. The only exception to this is where a window on an idea carries a limit which truncates the content.
^ As this one is (Mädje 2022). Look for it in this idea’s References block below, rather than in the footnote itself.

References

Mädje, Laurenz. 2022. “A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting.” Master's thesis.

[idea:idea-template]Idea page template

Every idea in your rookery gets its own standalone page. By default, this page shows the idea’s title and name, its body, and the context and backlinks footer.

You can customize the idea page’s chrome when you first instantiate rookery, like so:

#let idea-page-template(id: none, note: (:), doc) = {
  show: chrome.with(current-page: id)
  doc
}

#show: rookery.with(
  idea-page-template: idea-page-template,
)