yaml metadata block for scientific publications

[dwaggott]

I'm working on a process for getting collaboratively written scientific journal articles (in google docs) into latex via pandoc. Currently I export as a docx, convert to markdown via pandoc, split the markdown into a yaml metadata and main text, then convert to pdf via pandoc. The yaml metadata has the title, authors and abstract.

1. I have multiple authors and each has multiple affiliations. Currently no matter what I do each author gets output as TRUE. Any ideas?
2. Has anyone played around with the template to get multiple affiliations working? Ideally with superscript pointers to a list below.
3. Funding or Acknowledgments would be helpful sections to add to the latex template
4. Are there any ways to markup the docx so that the yaml metadata section can be auto-generated?

[Jmuccigr]

Hard to tell on #1 without an example.

[jgm]

+++ Daryl Waggott [May 04 16 08:59 ]:

I'm working on a process for getting collaboratively written scientific
journal articles (in google docs) into latex via pandoc. Currently I
export as a docx, convert to markdown via pandoc, split the markdown
into a yaml metadata and main text, then convert to pdf via pandoc. The
yaml metadata has the title, authors and abstract.

1. I have multiple authors and each has multiple affiliations.
   Currently no matter what I do each author gets output as TRUE. Any
   ideas?

You need a custom template to have structured authors. See
the README.

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:

    $for(author)$
    $if(author.name)$
    $author.name$$if(author.affiliation)$ ($author.affiliation$)$endif$
    $else$
    $author$
    $endif$
    $endfor$

There may be a more elegant way to do this in LaTeX.

2. Has anyone played around with the template to get multiple
   affiliations working? Ideally with superscript pointers to a list
   below.
3. Funding or Acknowledgments would be helpful sections to add to the
   latex template

Just use a custom template. See the README on Templates.

4. Are there any ways to markup the docx so that the yaml metadata
   section can be auto-generated?

I believe fields in the docx "properties" will come across as metadata.

[dwaggott]

Here is a snippet.

https://gist.github.com/463d54c083a3d02c74c974cb999221cc

[jgm]

Yes, see above. Use a custom template. Actually, the one I give above won't be enough for you, since you have lists of institutes. Try something like:

\author{
$for(author)$
$author.name$
($for(author.institute)$$author.institute$$sep$, $endfor$)
$sep$\and
$endfor$
}

[jgm]

PS. For questions like this, use the pandoc-discuss mailing list. Many more people will read it and be able to help. This tracker is for bug reports.