Additional author information

[marcoscaceres]

Authors would like to be able to add additional links to, for example, an ORCID, or even their twitter profile, linkedIn profile etc. As such, the author field should provide a means of adding additional links.

As part of the additional links, it would be good to allow authors to add a custom CSS class - that is, so they can style the link they way that they want.

In the document, it might appear like:

• Marcos Caceres (twitter, linkedIn), Mozilla.

Or:

• Ivan Herman (0000-0003-0782-2704, @ivan_herman), W3C.

Or some such...

[iherman]

Created a pull request for this, see #508. The approach is: for each name, the config file may include something of the form:

              ,   extras:     [{
                    name:  "0000-0003-0782-2704",
                    href:  "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-2704",
                    label: "orcid"
                  }, {
                    name:  "@ivan_herman",
                    href:  "http://twitter.com/ivan_herman",
                    label: "twitter"
                  }]

where label and href are optional. The result is to add a comma separated list of span elements at the end of the name as follows:

<span class="LABEL VALUE"><a href="HREF VALUE">NAME VALUE</a></span>

In practice, the user can adapt the output with some CSS. For example, for the code above, the following CSS makes sense:

      span.twitter:before {
        content: url(figures/twitter_logo.png);
      }
      span.orcid:before {
        content: url(figures/orcid_logo.png);
        margin-right: 2px;
      }

(Unfortunately, neither twitter nor ORCID "servers" their logos from their site, at least not yet.)

[marcoscaceres]

Few things:

• label should really be class. Otherwise, people will ask why the label doesn't show up.
• class should take an array. People might want multiple classes for whatever reason.

[marcoscaceres]

Actually, let's just make class a string, like you have it now... people can just add "," :)

[iherman]

On 30 Sep 2015, at 24:27 , Marcos Caceres notifications@github.com wrote:

Few things:

label should really be class. Otherwise, people will ask why the label doesn't show up.
class should take an array. People might want multiple classes for whatever reason.

Changed label to class. Per your other comment, left the content unchanged