LF or return in abstract?

[HughP]

Greetings,

I am trying to use Markdown in the abstract field. is this permissible? the specific issue is that I want to use two paragraphs but I don't know how to break them. I have tried \n and \s\s. I don't know where to go with this.

[ghost]

does < b r > (remove spaces) work?

[HughP]

neither <br> nor <br/> break the lines or create paragraphs. Oh, I also tried the markdown method of two spaces and then a return. but the return character kills hugo and the site won't render. aka the command line spits out an error.

[gcushen]

The IEEE/Springer journals and proceedings I read all tend to enforce a single paragraph abstract. What is your use case for needing line breaks in the abstract - is this common in other fields such as medicine?

[HughP]

I work in linguistics, technology, and language study. Just a quick look through my first 30 citations in Endnote revealed 2 with lists in the abstract. That was actually my use case, needing lists, not additional paragraphs.

• Askov, Eunice, Wayne Otto and Warren Askov. 1970. A Decade of Research in Handwriting: Progress and Prospect. The Journal of Educational Research 64.3: 99-111.
• Seiler, Guido. 2004. On three types of dialect variation, and their implications for linguistic theory. Evidence from verb clusters in Swiss German dialects. In Kortmann, Bernd (ed.), Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-linguistic Perspective (Trends in Linguistics 153), 367-99. Berlin ; New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Here are some proper abstracts with multiple paragraphs not just lists:

• Frascarelli, Mara. 2010. Narrow Focus, clefting and predicate inversion. Lingua 120.9: 2121-47
• van Gompel, Maarten and Martin Reynaert. 2013. FoLiA: A practical XML format for linguistic annotation – a descriptive and comparative study. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal 3:63-81

[HughP]

on a technical level I tried to add the markdownify code to abstract but that did not solve my issue. any pointers or ideas?

[HughP]

Resolved with the following code (also see comment in #201 as there are 3 places in the theme that need to have the | markdownify filter applied):

 <div class="pub-abstract" itemprop="text">
        {{ if .Params.abstract_short }}
        {{ .Params.abstract_short | markdownify }}
        {{ else }}
        {{ .Params.abstract | markdownify }}
        {{ end }}
      </div>

[ShaminderSingh]

Hi HughP; I am a newbie in this. Can you please let me know which one is the simplest solution to make separate paragraphs and how exactly should I do. I have downloaded my_website following steps on George's website. I do not see anything in my_website > Layouts. However, there are bunch of .html files in my_website>themes>academic>layout. Please help!

[mcoster]

Hi @ShaminderSingh - this fork does what you want. It markdownifys abstracts in layouts/partials/publication_li_detailed.html and layouts/publication/single.html

[gcushen]

The requested behaviour (parsing Markdown in abstracts) has now been added in #238.

[ShaminderSingh]

This worked! Thank you!

[basille]

I see that indeed Markdown can now be used in the abstract (as long as it remains a single line). So what is the way to go for a list? If I write: "1. First item.<br />1. Second item.", it combines everything in a single li element:

<ol>
<li>First item.<br />2. Second item</li>
</ol>

How can I have a true list, with different li elements? (I tried using \n or other escape characters without success)

[gcushen]

@basille List in abstract is possible using following code:

abstract = """- item 1 \n- test 2 \n- test 3"""

Or numbered list:

abstract = """1. item 1 \n2. test 2 \n3. test 3"""

[basille]

Excellent, thanks @gcushen. I thought I tried the use of \n, but I seem to have missed it.