Lost with string manipulation in a partial

[David_Mills]

Hello,

I’m trying to add hyperlinks to authors from a list in the front matter of a page:

author: ["[K. Frog](https://example.org)","[M. Piggie](https://example.com)","AN. Other"]

Not all authors have a URL associated with their name.

I have a partial (author.html) that splits quote enclosed authors, but I don’t understand enough Go string manipulation to modify this to add a link to each name, if a link is part of the author string.

{{- if .Params.author }}
{{- $author := .Params.author }}
{{- $author_type := (printf "%T" $author) }}
{{- if (or (eq $author_type "[]string") (eq $author_type "[]interface {}")) }}
{{- (delimit $author ", " ) }}
{{- else }}
{{- $author }}
{{- end }}
{{- end -}}

The output I’m looking for given the front matter input would be K. Frog, M. Piggie, AN. Other

Any help or pointers gratefully received.

[jmooring]

The idiomatic way to handle authors is with an authors taxonomy.

site configuration

[taxonomies]
author = 'authors'

content/posts/post-1.md

---
title: Post 1
date: 2021-01-01T00:00:00-00:00
draft: false
authors:
- kfrog
- mpiggie
---

content structure

content/
├── authors/
│   ├── kfrog/
│   │   └── _index.md  <-- contains author metadata (name, profile url, image, etc.)
│   └── mpiggie/
│       └── _index.md  <-- contains author metadata (name, profile url, image, etc.)
├── posts/
│   └── post-1.md
└── _index.md

content/authors/kfrog/_index.md

---
title: K. Frog
date: 2023-07-20T13:12:19-07:00
draft: false
profile: https://example.org/kfrog  <-- do not use `url` as the key; that's reserved
---

layouts/_default/single.html

{{ with .GetTerms "authors" }}
  <p>Authors:</p>
  <ul>
    {{ range . }}
      <li>
        <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ .LinkTitle }}</a>
        (<a href="{{ .Params.profile }}">profile</a>)
      </li>
    {{ end }}
  </ul>
{{ end }}

rendered

[David_Mills]

Thank you for your reply, I had considered doing it this way, and this would work for pages authored on-site. However, the authors I’m referring to are generated from a bibtext file I parse to extract journal titles, author names and associated URLs (Often google scholar links, or links to person websites.

Essentially I’m producing a pager per publication from the bibtex, with most of the content automagically generated, it’s just the author name / url that’s flummoxed me.

[jmooring]

Given your front matter example, this:

{{ range .Params.author }}
  {{ . | markdownify }}
{{ end }}

produces this:

[David_Mills]

@jmooring

{{ range .Params.author }}
  {{ . | markdownify }}
{{ end }}

Thank you - that gets me what I want. I really appreciate your help.

[jmooring]

If you want to insert a delimiter…

{{- range $k, $_ := .Params.author }}
  {{- if $k }} {{ end }}
  {{- . | markdownify }}
{{- end }}