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Latex templates for the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries fisheries reports
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required update for the AEBR and FAR templates? #30

Closed katrin-berkenbusch closed 2 years ago

katrin-berkenbusch commented 3 years ago

These report types now need to include the author's affiliations at footnotes at the bottom of the self-cite page (first page of Executive Summary).

Maybe this change doesn't need to be templated? Here is what I did for a recent AKI FAR, when all authors had the same affiliation:

\textbf{Neubauer, P.\footnote{Dragonfly Data Science, New Zealand.}; Damodaran, D.\footnotemark[1]; Berkenbusch, K.\footnotemark1. Bivalve abundance in relation to sediment properties across northern North Island.}

katrin-berkenbusch commented 3 years ago

from MPI editor - "When there are many authors from the same organisation (I take that as more than 3), it is acceptable to put the footnote number after the first author only and then add wording as below

All authors: Dragonfly Data Science, New Zealand."

dmiddleton commented 3 years ago

I have added a somewhat hacky solution to this from v1.30. It requires a different format for the \author{} specification - see the mpi-far.tex example. However, it shouldn't break old versions too badly. When defining the affiliation= for an author you should now use either \newaffiliation{<tag>}{<description>} (the first time an institution is mentioned) or \useaffiliation{<tag>} (for subsequent autores with the same institution).

dmiddleton commented 3 years ago

There may be alternative/better approaches. The widely cited authblk package seems to be incompatible with our template. The svjour3 document class looks like it has a \institute{} command that provides footnotes (noted in an exchange here)

dmiddleton commented 3 years ago

One known bug is that including a comma in the <description> causes the build to fail. This may be due to the problem described in this stackexchange thread. This is definitely less than ideal - given the expectation that the footnotes will contain names and addresses, so needs further attention soon.

dmiddleton commented 3 years ago

Version 1.31 adds \addrsep{} which is used within the institution <description> and (i) doesn't cause the build to fail and (ii) adds a comma and space in the footnote. Possibly not the most elegant solution, but solves the immediate problem.

dmiddleton commented 2 years ago

The solution, while inelegant, is working, so closing this issue for now