https://github.com/duetosymmetry/make-iop-author-list

Generates LaTeX code for an IOP publication author list
https://github.com/duetosymmetry/make-iop-author-list

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Generates LaTeX code for an IOP publication author list

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/duetosymmetry/make-iop-author-list
• Owner: duetosymmetry
• Created: 2014-01-16T15:45:51.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-07-27T19:44:10.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-05-15T00:40:17.936Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: latex, python, script
• Language: Python
• Size: 168 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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make-iop-author-list

====================

Generates `LaTeX` code for an IOP publication author list (e.g. for

ApJ, AJ, etc.).

I wrote this barebones script to automate the annoyance of IOP's

`iopart.cls` lacking proper `\affiliation` and `\author` handling.

`iopart.cls` requires you to manually "footnote" your author listing,

determine the affiliation order by hand, etc. This is a nightmare for

a paper with a large number of authors and many institutions, having

authors with multiple institutions where some overlap.

`make-iop-author-list` is supposed to automate the process.

The script accepts two plain text files and emits `LaTeX` source on

stdout. The first plain text file (say `authors.txt`) contains the

ordered author list with keywords for each author's institutional

affiliations. The second plain text file (say `affils.txt`) is map of

affiliation-keys to their addresses.

`authors.txt` has the following format: one author per line, each line

consists of:

```latex

Author's~name~in~LaTeX~with~no~withspace[arbitrary amount of whitespace]comma,delimited,affiliation,keyword,list

```

`affils.txt` has the following format: one affiliation per line, each

line consists of:

```latex

keyword[arbitrary amount of whitespace]Affiliation name and address, as LaTeX code, any characters you want

```

The directory [example/](example/) is just that. This example shows:

* Where whitespace does and doesn't go

* Where `LaTeX` code goes

* The affiliation list order determined from the author list

* Multiple affiliations per author keep their order

* [Makefile](example/Makefile) usage is encouraged and the rule is very simple

I haven't put in any error checking or other niceties. Feel free to

fork and send me a pull request if you want to improve the code! :)