diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 421abb8..d680ce2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,21 +11,21 @@ This is a template for creating slides in [Typst](https://typst.app/).
 #import "slides.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: "Names of author(s)",
-    short-authors: "Shorter author for slide footer",
-    title: "Title of the presentation",
-    subtitle: "Subtitle of the presentation",
-    short-title: "Shorter title for slide footer",
-    date: "March 2023",
+    authors: [Names of author(s)],
+    short-authors: [Shorter author for slide footer],
+    title: [Title of the presentation],
+    subtitle: [Subtitle of the presentation],
+    short-title: [Shorter title for slide footer],
+    date: [March 2023],
 )
 
 #set text(font: "Inria Sans", size: 25pt)
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("My section name")
+#new-section([My section name])
 
-#slide(title: "A boring static slide")[
+#slide(title: [A boring static slide])[
   Some boring static text.
 
   #lorem(20)
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ This is a template for creating slides in [Typst](https://typst.app/).
   Focus!
 ]
 
-#new-section("Conclusion")
+#new-section([Conclusion])
 
-#slide(title: "Take home message")[
+#slide(title: [Take home message])[
   Read the book!
 
   Try it out!
diff --git a/book/src/config.md b/book/src/config.md
index de8d6e6..1cd0d5b 100644
--- a/book/src/config.md
+++ b/book/src/config.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ don't have to) provide the following arguments in the form of
 ```typ
 #show: slides.with(
   title: "some string",
-  subtitle: [contents are also possible],
+  subtitle: [*content* is also valid here],
   // ...
 )
 ```
diff --git a/book/src/theme-gallery/bipartite.typ b/book/src/theme-gallery/bipartite.typ
index d5dd4ea..1310734 100644
--- a/book/src/theme-gallery/bipartite.typ
+++ b/book/src/theme-gallery/bipartite.typ
@@ -2,25 +2,28 @@
 #import "../../../themes/bipartite.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: ("Author A", "Author B"), short-authors: "Short author",
-    title: "Title", short-title: "Short title", subtitle: "Subtitle",
-    date: "Date",
+    authors: ([Author A], [Author B]),
+	short-authors: [Short author],
+    title: [Title],
+	short-title: [Short title],
+	subtitle: [Subtitle],
+    date: [Date],
     theme: bipartite-theme(),
 )
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("section name")
+#new-section([section name])
 
-#slide(title: "A longer slide title")[
+#slide(title: [A longer slide title])[
   #lorem(40)
 ]
 
-#slide(theme-variant: "east", title: "On the right!")[
+#slide(theme-variant: "east", title: [On the right!])[
   #lorem(40)
 ]
 
-#slide(theme-variant: "center split")[
+#slide(theme-variant: [center split])[
   #lorem(40)
 ][
   #lorem(40)
diff --git a/book/src/theme-gallery/bristol.typ b/book/src/theme-gallery/bristol.typ
index 540b88e..2835a1b 100644
--- a/book/src/theme-gallery/bristol.typ
+++ b/book/src/theme-gallery/bristol.typ
@@ -2,27 +2,30 @@
 #import "../../../themes/bristol.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: ("Author A", "Author B"), short-authors: "Short author",
-    title: "Title", short-title: "Short title", subtitle: "Subtitle",
-    date: "Date",
+    authors: ([Author A], [Author B]),
+	short-authors: [Short author],
+    title: [Title],
+	short-title: [Short title],
+	subtitle: [Subtitle],
+    date: [Date],
     theme: bristol-theme(),
 )
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("section name")
+#new-section([section name])
 
-#slide(title: "Slide title")[
+#slide(title: [Slide title])[
   A slide
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Two column")[
+#slide(title: [Two column])[
 Column A goes on the left...
 ][
 And column B goes on the right!
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Variable column sizes", colwidths: (2fr, 1fr, 3fr))[
+#slide(title: [Variable column sizes], colwidths: (2fr, 1fr, 3fr))[
 This is a medium-width column
 ][
 This is a rather narrow column
@@ -32,4 +35,4 @@ This is a quite a wide column
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "wake up")[
   Wake up!
-]
\ No newline at end of file
+]
diff --git a/book/src/theme-gallery/default.typ b/book/src/theme-gallery/default.typ
index 77c5e84..e07b6ec 100644
--- a/book/src/theme-gallery/default.typ
+++ b/book/src/theme-gallery/default.typ
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 #import "../../../slides.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: ("Author A", "Author B"), short-authors: "Short author",
-    title: "Title", short-title: "Short title", subtitle: "Subtitle",
-    date: "Date",
+    authors: ([Author A], [Author B]),
+	short-authors: [Short author],
+    title: [Title],
+	short-title: [Short title],
+	subtitle: [Subtitle],
+    date: [Date],
 )
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("section name")
+#new-section([section name])
 
-#slide(title: "Slide title")[
+#slide(title: [Slide title])[
   A slide
 ]
 
diff --git a/book/src/theme-gallery/index.md b/book/src/theme-gallery/index.md
index 7881c15..b3d5424 100644
--- a/book/src/theme-gallery/index.md
+++ b/book/src/theme-gallery/index.md
@@ -35,16 +35,19 @@ You can specify it explicitly by referring to `slides-default-theme`:
 #import "slides.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: ("Author A", "Author B"), short-authors: "Short author",
-    title: "Title", short-title: "Short title", subtitle: "Subtitle",
-    date: "Date",
+    authors: ("Author A (eg. string)", [Author B (eg. content)]),
+	short-authors: [Short author],
+    title: [Title],
+	short-title: [Short title],
+	subtitle: [Subtitle],
+    date: [Date],
 )
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("section name")
+#new-section([section name])
 
-#slide(title: "Slide title")[
+#slide(title: [Slide title])[
   A slide
 ]
 
@@ -89,21 +92,24 @@ It features a dominant partition of space into a bright and a dark side.
 #import "themes/bipartite.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: ("Author A", "Author B"), short-authors: "Short author",
-    title: "Title", short-title: "Short title", subtitle: "Subtitle",
-    date: "Date",
+    authors: ("Author A (eg. string)", [Author B (eg. content)]),
+	short-authors: [Short author],
+    title: [Title],
+	short-title: [Short title],
+	subtitle: [Subtitle],
+    date: [Date],
     theme: bipartite-theme(),
 )
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("section name")
+#new-section([section name])
 
-#slide(title: "A longer slide title")[
+#slide(title: [A longer slide title])[
   #lorem(40)
 ]
 
-#slide(theme-variant: "east", title: "On the right!")[
+#slide(theme-variant: "east", title: [On the right!])[
   #lorem(40)
 ]
 
@@ -152,27 +158,30 @@ Default logos are shipped with the theme, however they can be swapped out for an
 #import "themes/bristol.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: ("Author A", "Author B"), short-authors: "Short author",
-    title: "Title", short-title: "Short title", subtitle: "Subtitle",
-    date: "Date",
+    authors: ("Author A (eg. string)", [Author B (eg. content)]),
+	short-authors: [Short author],
+    title: [Title],
+	short-title: [Short title],
+	subtitle: [Subtitle],
+    date: [Date],
     theme: bristol-theme(),
 )
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title")
 
-#new-section("section name")
+#new-section([section name])
 
-#slide(title: "Slide title")[
+#slide(title: [Slide title])[
   A slide
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Two column", gutter: .5em)[
+#slide(title: [Two column], gutter: .5em)[
 Column A goes on the left...
 ][
 And column B goes on the right!
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Variable column sizes", colwidths: (2fr, 1fr, 3fr))[
+#slide(title: [Variable column sizes], colwidths: (2fr, 1fr, 3fr))[
 This is a medium-width column
 ][
 This is a rather narrow column
diff --git a/examples/demo.typ b/examples/demo.typ
index a0799f1..85ed7ee 100644
--- a/examples/demo.typ
+++ b/examples/demo.typ
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 #import "../slides.typ": *    
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: "Andreas Kröpelin",
-    short-authors: "A. Kröpelin",
+    authors: [Andreas Kröpelin],
+    short-authors: [A. Kröpelin],
     title: [`typst-slides`: Easily creating slides in Typst ],
-    subtitle: "An overview over all the features",
-    short-title: "Slides template demo",
-    date: "April 2023",
+    subtitle: [An overview over all the features],
+    short-title: [Slides template demo],
+    date: [April 2023],
 )
 
 #show link: set text(blue)
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("Introduction")
+#new-section([Introduction])
 
-#slide(title: "About this presentation")[
+#slide(title: [About this presentation])[
     This presentation is supposed to briefly showcase what you can do with this
     template.
 
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@
     #link("https://andreaskroepelin.github.io/typst-slides/book/")[online book].
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "A title")[
+#slide(title: [A title])[
     Let's explore what we have here.
 
     On the top of this slide, you can see the slide title.
 
     We used the `title` argument of the `#slide` function for that:
     ```typ
-    #slide(title: "First slide")[
+    #slide(title: [First slide])[
         ...
     ]
     ```
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     This helps our audience with not getting lost after a microsleep.
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "The bottom of the slide")[
+#slide(title: [The bottom of the slide])[
     Now, look down!
 
     There we have some general info for the audience about what talk they are
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
     You can also see the slide number there.
 ]
 
-#new-section("Dynamic content")
+#new-section([Dynamic content])
 
 #slide(title: [A dynamic slide with `pause`s])[
     Sometimes we don't want to display everything at once.
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
     #text(.6em)[(Also note that the slide number does not change while we are here.)]
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Fine-grained control")[
+#slide(title: [Fine-grained control])[
     When `#pause` does not suffice, you can use more advanced commands to show
     or hide content.
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
     ]
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Complex display rules")[
+#slide(title: [Complex display rules])[
     So far, we only used single subslide indices to define when to show something.
 
     We can also use arrays of numbers...
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
     ]
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Convenient rules as strings")[
+#slide(title: [Convenient rules as strings])[
     As as short hand option, you can also specify rules as strings in a special
     syntax.
 
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
     `start` is again optional and defaults to `1`.
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Different ways of covering content")[
+#slide(title: [Different ways of covering content])[
     When content is covered, it is completely invisible by default.
 
     However, you can also just display it in light gray by using the
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
 
 #new-section("Themes")
 
-#slide(title: "How a slide looks...")[
+#slide(title: [How a slide looks...])[
     ... is defined by the _theme_ of the presentation.
 
     This demo uses the default theme.
@@ -277,13 +277,13 @@
     Themes can also provide variants, for example ...
 ]
 
-#slide(theme-variant: "wake up")[
+#slide(theme-variant: [wake up])[
     ... this one!
 
     It's very minimalist and helps the audience focus on an important point.
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Your own theme?")[
+#slide(title: [Your own theme?])[
     If you want to create your own design for slides, you can define custom
     themes!
 
@@ -291,12 +291,12 @@
     explains how to do so.
 ]
 
-#new-section("Conclusion")
+#new-section([Conclusion])
 
-#slide(title: "That's it!")[
+#slide(title: [That's it!])[
     Hopefully you now have some kind of idea what you can do with this template.
 
     Consider giving it
     #link("https://github.com/andreasKroepelin/typst-slides")[a GitHub star #text(font: "OpenMoji")[#emoji.star]]
     or open an issue if you run into bugs or have feature requests.
-]
\ No newline at end of file
+]
diff --git a/examples/gauss.typ b/examples/gauss.typ
index 03ed6aa..a4edb3a 100644
--- a/examples/gauss.typ
+++ b/examples/gauss.typ
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: "Carl Friedrich Gauß",
-    short-authors: "CF Gauß",
-    title: "On a revolutionary way to sum up natural numbers",
-		subtitle: "What they won't teach you in school",
-    short-title: "Sum of natural numbers",
-    date: "1784",
+    authors: [Carl Friedrich Gauß],
+    short-authors: [CF Gauß],
+    title: [On a revolutionary way to sum up natural numbers],
+		subtitle: [What they won't teach you in school],
+    short-title: [Sum of natural numbers],
+    date: [1784],
 )
 
 #set text(font: "GFS Neohellenic")
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("Introduction")
+#new-section([Introduction])
 
-#slide(title: "Problem statement")[
+#slide(title: [Problem statement])[
 	Let $n in NN$.
 	We are interested in sums of the form
 	$ 1 + ... + n = sum_(i=1)^n i $
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "The theorem")[
+#slide(title: [The theorem])[
 
 	I discovered that
 	$ sum_(i=1)^n i = n(n+1)/2 $
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
 	Let's prove that!
 ]
 
-#new-section("Proof")
+#new-section([Proof])
 
-#slide(title: "Method of proof")[
+#slide(title: [Method of proof])[
 	We will prove the theorem by induction, following these steps:
 
 	+ base case
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 	+ induction step
 ]
 
-#slide(title: "Proof")[
+#slide(title: [Proof])[
 	#set text(.7em)
 
 	#one-by-one[
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@
 	]
 ]
 
-#slide(theme-variant: "wake up")[
+#slide(theme-variant: [wake up])[
 	= Proof is over, wake up!
 ]
 
-#new-section("Conclusion")
+#new-section([Conclusion])
 
-#slide(title: "That's it!")[
+#slide(title: [That's it!])[
 
 	Now you know how to calculate those sums more quickly, nice!
 ]
diff --git a/examples/override-theme.typ b/examples/override-theme.typ
index de9c990..5eb0ca1 100644
--- a/examples/override-theme.typ
+++ b/examples/override-theme.typ
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 #import "../slides.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: "Names of author(s)",
-    short-authors: "Shorter author for slide footer",
-    title: "Title of the presentation",
-    subtitle: "Subtitle of the presentation",
-    short-title: "Shorter title for slide footer",
-    date: "March 2023",
+    authors: [Names of author(s)],
+	short-authors: [Shorter author for slide footer],
+	title: [Title of the presentation],
+    subtitle: [Subtitle of the presentation],
+    short-title: [Shorter title for slide footer],
+    date: [March 2023],
 )
 
-#new-section("My section name")
+#new-section([My section name])
 
-#slide(title: "Slide title")[
+#slide(title: [Slide title])[
   #lorem(40)
 ]
 
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
   #rotate(45deg, heading(level: 2, slide-info.title))
   #scale(x: -100%, bodies.first())
 ]
-#slide(override-theme: special-purpose-theme, title: "This is rotated")[
+#slide(override-theme: special-purpose-theme, title: [This is rotated])[
   #lorem(40)
 ]
diff --git a/examples/simple.typ b/examples/simple.typ
index 53de656..3f90628 100644
--- a/examples/simple.typ
+++ b/examples/simple.typ
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 #import "../slides.typ": *
 
 #show: slides.with(
-    authors: "Names of author(s)",
-    short-authors: "Shorter author for slide footer",
-    title: "Title of the presentation",
-    subtitle: "Subtitle of the presentation",
-    short-title: "Shorter title for slide footer",
-    date: "March 2023",
+    authors: [Names of author(s)],
+    short-authors: [Shorter author for slide footer],
+    title: [Title of the presentation],
+    subtitle: [Subtitle of the presentation],
+    short-title: [Shorter title for slide footer],
+    date: [March 2023],
 )
 
 #set text(font: "Inria Sans")
 
 #slide(theme-variant: "title slide")
 
-#new-section("My section name")
+#new-section([My section name])
 
-#slide(title: "A boring static slide")[
+#slide(title: [A boring static slide])[
   Some boring static text.
 
   #lorem(20)
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
   Focus!
 ]
 
-#new-section("Conclusion")
+#new-section([Conclusion])
 
-#slide(title: "Take home message")[
+#slide(title: [Take home message])[
   Read the book!
 
   Try it out!