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[FR] Indexing on authors to centralize author declaration #4669

Open ma-riviere opened 1 year ago

ma-riviere commented 1 year ago

Hi,

A useful feature for people with many articles/posts sharing multiple authors would be to declare a central list of authors and be able to reference them from individual pages, in a similar fashion to affiliations:

_authors.yml

authors:
  - id: author1
    name: ...
    affiliations:
       - ref: lab1
  - id: author2
    name: ...
    affiliations:
      - ref: lab1

affiliations:
  - id: lab1
    name: ...

my_pub.qmd

title: ...

metadata-files: [_authors.yml]

author:
  - ref: author1

Thanks !

Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/4630

Originally posted by **ma-riviere** March 5, 2023 Hi, Is there a way to have a centralized list of authors as a standalone file that can then be imported in multiple .qmd files, but only have a selection of those authors listed in each .qmd ? **Example:** `_authors.yml` ``` authors: - id: author1 name: ... affiliations: - ref: lab1 - id: author2 name: ... affiliations: - ref: lab1 affliliations: - id: lab1 name: ... ``` `my_pub.qmd` ``` title: ... metadata-files: [_authors.yml] # This part gets completely ignored author: - ref: author1 ``` If I do the above, it will list **all** the authors referenced in `_authors.yml` in each .qmd file importing `_authors_yml`. Is there a way to specify which authors of that central author list I want to see displayed in a specific file ? (the same way we can reference affiliations) Useful info: - Website project (outputting to HTML) - Quarto v1.3.242 on Ubuntu 22.04 Thank you
lorenzoFabbri commented 1 year ago

I am also interested in this. Moreover, it would be nice to be able to change the order of the authors in each manuscript.

maelle commented 10 months ago

Unsure whether a new issue is needed: it'd be nice to also be able to store an URL by author, in blogs for instance. This way in the blog metadata in each post, the author name could be a link to that URL.