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astrofrog / acknowledgment-generator

Easily generate acknowledgment sections for papers
http://astrofrog.github.io/acknowledgment-generator/
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Try and reduce boilerplate language #15

Closed astrofrog closed 7 years ago

astrofrog commented 9 years ago

We don't want to necessarily have 'This research made use of...' repeated 20 times

Cadair commented 9 years ago

It needs some kind of template, either just detecting the text or having some specific place holder?

astrofrog commented 9 years ago

We could just also assume that all acknowledgments start with that, and not include it in the yaml files. Then we just do: This research made use of [ack1]; [ack2]; [ack3]. We could even use a slightly different start for the different sections This paper includes observations from [ack4]; [ack5]; [ack6] and so on. It might change some of the acknowledgments slightly. But basically I think the idea would be to get rid of the start of the sentence in all yaml files and add it in the javascript.

slowe commented 9 years ago

Yes, I'm having a similar problem in something I'm doing as I have lots of sources and I don't want the same bit of text repeated. Removing the start of the sentence in the yaml is probably a good idea. The Javascript could even allow for a user-specified separator. :)

slowe commented 9 years ago

I've had a go at concatenating anything containing "made use of". The results look like this... Before screen shot 2015-02-19 at 16 43 42 After screen shot 2015-02-19 at 16 43 24

slowe commented 9 years ago

Isn't this issue a repeat of issue #1 ?

astrofrog commented 9 years ago

@slowe - it is indeed. Very nice work with avoiding the repeated text, I'll take a look at how you did it!

astrofrog commented 9 years ago

@slowe already took a stab at this, and will leave it open for now in case we want to make any further changes (but actually it looks nice at the moment)