Collect author information in a YAML file and use it to render the relevant bits

Author: dokempf

.github/workflows/paper.yml

@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+
+      - name: Install Python requirements
+        run: pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Create contributor snippet
+        run: python contributors.py
 
       - uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@v3
         with:

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+contributors.tex
+
 ## Core latex/pdflatex auxiliary files:
 *.aux
 *.lof

contributors.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import jinja2
+import os
+import yaml
+
+
+with open("contributors.yml") as f:
+    data = yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+# Ensure that we have unique indices for the affiliations
+affiliations = list()
+for authors in data["authors"]:
+    affiliations.extend(authors.get("affiliations", []))
+data["affiliations"] = {aff: i + 1 for i, aff in enumerate(set(affiliations))}
+for author in data["authors"]:
+    author["affiliations"] = [data["affiliations"][aff] for aff in author.get("affiliations", [])]
+
+env = jinja2.Environment(
+   loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(os.getcwd()),
+   keep_trailing_newline=True,
+)
+
+with open("./contributors.tex", "w") as out:
+    out.write(env.get_template("contributors.tex.j2").render(data=data))

contributors.tex

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{%- for author in data.authors %}
+\author[{{ author.affiliations|join(", ") }}]{{ "{" }}{{ author.author }}{{ "}" }}
+{%- endfor %}
+{%- for affiliation, index in data.affiliations.items() %}
+\affil[{{ index }}]{{ "{" }}{{ affiliation }}{{ "}" }}
+{%- endfor %}

contributors.tex.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+authors:
+  - author: "Markus Ankenbrand"
+
+  - author: "Bernd Flemisch"
+
+  - author: "Florian Goth"
+    firstName: Florian
+    lastName: Goth
+    initials: FG
+    affiliations:
+      - Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Würzburg, Germany
+    orcid: 0000-0003-2707-4790
+    email: [email protected]
+    acknowledgements: |
+      FG acknowledges funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
+      (DFG, German Research Foundation) through the SFB 1170 “Tocotronics”,
+      project Z03 - project number \geprislink{258499086}.
+
+  - author: "Jean-Noël Grad"
+    firstName: Jean-Noël
+    lastName: Grad
+    initials: JNG
+    affiliations:
+      - Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
+    orcid: 0000-0002-5821-4912
+    email: [email protected]
+    acknowledgements: |
+      JNG acknowledges funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
+      (DFG, German Research Foundation) - project number \geprislink{391126171}
+      (PI: Holm) and from the European Union – this work has received funding
+      from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) and
+      countries participating in the project under grant agreement
+      No [101093169](https://doi.org/10.3030/101093169).
+
+  - author: "Dominic Kempf"
+    firstName: Dominic
+    lastName: Kempf
+    initials: DK
+    affiliations:
+      - Heidelberg University, Scientific Software Center, Germany
+    orcid: 0000-0002-6140-2332
+    email: [email protected]
+    acknowledgements: |
+      DK acknowledges support from the Scientific Software Center which is funded as part
+      of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments.
+
+  - author: "Jan Linxweiler"
+    firstName: Jan
+    lastName: Linxweiler
+    initials: JL
+    affiliations:
+      - Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
+    orcid: 0000-0002-2755-5087
+    email: [email protected]
+
+  - author: "Axel Loewe"
+
+  - author: "Frank Löffler"
+    firstName: Frank
+    lastName: Löffler
+    affiliations:
+      - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
+      - Michael Stifel Center Jena, Jena, Germany
+    orcid: 0000-0001-6643-6323
+    email: [email protected]
+
+  - author: "Philipp Schäfer"
+
+  - author: "Alexander Struck"

contributors.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
+\usepackage{authblk}
 \usepackage[]{biblatex}
 \usepackage{graphicx}
 \usepackage{hyperref}
@@ -11,27 +12,8 @@
 \addbibresource{bibliography.bib}
 \addbibresource{positionpaper.bib}
 \title{Establishing RSE departments in German research institutions}
-\author{
-    Bernd Flemisch
-    \and
-    Florian Goth
-    \and
-    Dominic Kempf
-    \and
-    Jan Linxweiler
-    \and
-    Frank Löffler
-    \and
-    Philipp Schäfer
-    \and
-    Alexander Struck
-    \and
-    Axel Loewe
-    \and
-    Markus Ankenbrand
-    \and
-    Jean-Noël Grad
-}
+
+\include{contributors.tex}
 
 \date{\today}
 

paper.tex

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+jinja2
+pyaml