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| -rw-r--r-- | MANUAL.txt | 26 |
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diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 2177cf926..2571b7ae0 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -2461,10 +2461,8 @@ when the field contains blank lines: --- title: 'This is the title: it contains a colon' author: - - name: Author One - affiliation: University of Somewhere - - name: Author Two - affiliation: University of Nowhere + - Author One + - Author Two tags: [nothing, nothingness] abstract: | This is the abstract. @@ -2479,9 +2477,23 @@ equivalent of the Markdown in the `abstract` field: <p>This is the abstract.</p> <p>It consists of two paragraphs.</p> -Note: The `author` variable in the default templates expects a simple list or -string. To use the structured authors in the example, you would need a -custom template. For example: +Variables can contain arbitrary YAML structures, but the template must match +this structure. The `author` variable in the default templates expects a +simple list or string, but can be changed to support more complicated +structures. The following combination, for example, would add an affiliation +to the author if one is given: + + --- + title: The document title + author: + - name: Author One + affiliation: University of Somewhere + - name: Author Two + affiliation: University of Nowhere + ... + +To use the structured authors in the example above, you would need a custom +template: $for(author)$ $if(author.name)$ |