$author.name$ not available in reveal.js template?

[ThierryO]

I'm trying to define a partial template for reveal.js. I defined the authors in the yaml header as below. For some reason $author.name$, $author.firstname$ and $author.orcid$ are empty. $author$ contains the value which should be in author.name. I use this technique without problems in a quarto book project with html output.

author: 
  - firstname: Thierry
    name: Onkelinx
    orcid: 0000-0001-8804-4216

$for(author)$
  <p class="author">$author.name$, $author.firstname$ $author.orcid$</p>
$endfor$

[dragonstyle]

We generally recommend that you use our normalized author scheme whenever possible. This will mean that your partial will support a variety of syntaxes for writing authors without modification of the source document. More here:

https://quarto.org/docs/journals/authors.html

Ideally that would mean writing something like:

author:
  - name: Thierry Onkelinx
    orcid: 0000-0001-8804-4216

and

$for(by-author)$
  <p class="author">$by-author.name.family$, $by-author.name.given$ $by-author.orcid$</p>
$endfor$

Would this work for you?

[ThierryO]

Yes. This works fine.

[fuhrmanator]

Can you explain how to iterate with author affiliations then? I tried the following but the affiliation (there's only one) doesn't list (the name and email are correct):

  $for(by-author)$
    <p class="author">$by-author.name.literal$ (<a href="mailto:$by-author.email$">$by-author.email$</a>)</p>
    $for(by-author.by-affiliation)$
      <p class="author">$by-author.by-affiliation.name$</p>
    $endfor$
  $endfor$

[fuhrmanator]

OK, I guess dropping the by-author. scope works:

  $for(by-author)$
    <p class="author">$by-author.name.literal$ (<a href="mailto:$by-author.email$">$by-author.email$</a>)</p>
    $for(by-affiliation)$
      <p class="author">$by-affiliation.name$</p>
    $endfor$
  $endfor$

[dragonstyle]

I actually think you want to use $by-author.affiliations$ which will be the affiliations for this author. $by-affiliations will return all affiliations across all authors (to allow you to iterate through all affiliations and output authors).

[fuhrmanator]

Thanks @dragonstyle . Here's the updated nested block:

  $for(by-author)$
    <p class="author">$by-author.name.literal$ (<a href="mailto:$by-author.email$">$by-author.email$</a>)</p>
    $for(by-author.affiliations)$
      <p class="author">$by-author.affiliations.name$</p>
    $endfor$
  $endfor$