Centralized list of authors

[ma-riviere]

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

[mcanouil]

Far as I know, currently there is no way to do that.

[dragonstyle]

I agree that there isn't a way to do this now- we interpret the authors key as declaring the complete list of authors for a document. Interesting idea, however, to support indexing into authors- would be happy to consider as an enhancement!

[ma-riviere]

Thanks for the answer !

@dragonstyle Should I open an issue/FR for this ?

[mcanouil]

You can and for a better follow-up, you can linked the issue to this discussion.

[ma-riviere]

Done, and thanks for the tip !

#4669