Adds support max_author_limit (#732)

* Adds support max author limit

* typo

* fix

* display all authors by default

* Added an example

* Added 'and' before the last author

* Improve hiding/showing more authors

* Add title text

Co-authored-by: Maruan Al-Shedivat <maruan@genesistherapeutics.ai>
Co-authored-by: Maruan <alshedivat@users.noreply.github.com>

_bibliography/papers.bib

@@ -71,3 +71,11 @@
   author={Einstein, A.},
   year={1905}
 }
+
+@book{przibram1967letters,
+  bibtex_show={true},
+  title={Letters on wave mechanics},
+  author={Einstein, Albert and Schrödinger, Erwin and Planck, Max and Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon and Przibram, Karl},
+  year={1967},
+  publisher={Vision}
+}

_config.yml

@@ -234,7 +234,11 @@ scholar:
 
   query: "@*"
 
-filtered_bibtex_keywords: [abbr, abstract, arxiv, bibtex_show, html, pdf, selected, supp, blog, code, poster, slides, website, preview] # Filter out certain bibtex entry keywords used internally from the bib output
+# Filter out certain bibtex entry keywords used internally from the bib output
+filtered_bibtex_keywords: [abbr, abstract, arxiv, bibtex_show, html, pdf, selected, supp, blog, code, poster, slides, website, preview]
+
+# Maximum number of authors to be shown, other authors will be visible on hover, leave blank to show all authors
+max_author_limit: 3
 
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Responsive WebP Images

_data/coauthors.yml

@@ -16,3 +16,19 @@
 
   - firstname: ["Carl Philipp Emanuel", "C. P. E."]
     url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Philipp_Emanuel_Bach
+
+"Przibram":
+  - firstname: ["Karl"]
+    url: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-019-00242-z
+
+"Schrödinger":
+  - firstname: ["Erwin"]
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger
+
+"Lorentz":
+  - firstname: ["Hendrik Antoon"]
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz
+
+"Planck":
+  - firstname: ["Max"]
+    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck

_layouts/bib.html

@@ -27,9 +27,17 @@
           <div class="title">{{entry.title}}</div>
           <!-- Author -->
           <div class="author">
-          {%- for author in entry.author_array -%}
+          {% assign author_array_size = entry.author_array | size %}
+
+          {%- if site.max_author_limit and author_array_size > site.max_author_limit %}
+            {% assign author_array_limit = site.max_author_limit %}
+          {% else %}
+            {% assign author_array_limit = author_array_size %}
+          {% endif %}
+
+          {%- for author in entry.author_array limit: author_array_limit -%}
             {%- assign author_is_self = false -%}
-            {%- if author.last == site.scholar.last_name%}
+            {%- if author.last == site.scholar.last_name %}
               {%- if site.scholar.first_name contains author.first -%}
                 {%- assign author_is_self = true -%}
               {%- endif -%}
@@ -62,18 +70,53 @@
                   {%- endif -%}
                 {%- endif -%}
               {%- else -%}
+                {%- if author_array_limit == author_array_size %} and {% endif %}
                 {% if author_is_self -%}
-                  and <em>{{author.last}}, {{author.first}}</em>
+                  <em>{{author.last}}, {{author.first}}</em>
                 {% else -%}
                   {%- if coauthor_url -%}
-                    and <a href="{{coauthor_url}}">{{author.last}}, {{author.first}}</a>
+                    <a href="{{coauthor_url}}">{{author.last}}, {{author.first}}</a>
                   {% else -%}
-                    and {{author.last}}, {{author.first}}
+                    {{author.last}}, {{author.first}}
                   {%- endif -%}
                 {%- endif -%}
               {%- endunless -%}
             {%- endif -%}
           {%- endfor %}
+
+          {% assign more_authors = author_array_size | minus: author_array_limit %}
+
+          {%- if more_authors > 0 %}
+            {% assign more_authors_hide = more_authors | append: " more author" %}
+            {% if more_authors > 1 %}
+              {% assign more_authors_hide = more_authors_hide | append: "s" %}
+            {% endif %}
+            {% assign more_authors_show = '' %}
+            {%- for author in entry.author_array offset: author_array_limit -%}
+              {% assign more_authors_show = more_authors_show | append: author.last | append: ", " | append: author.first %}
+              {% unless forloop.last %}
+                {% assign more_authors_show = more_authors_show | append: ",&nbsp;" %}
+              {% endunless %}
+            {%- endfor -%}
+            and
+            <span
+                class="more-authors"
+                title="click to view {{more_authors_hide}}"
+                onclick="
+                  var element = $('span.more-authors');
+                  var more_authors_text = element.text() == '{{more_authors_hide}}' ? '{{more_authors_show}}' : '{{more_authors_hide}}';
+                  var cursorPosition = 0;
+                  var textAdder = setInterval(function(){
+                    element.text(more_authors_text.substring(0, cursorPosition + 1));
+                    element.attr('title', '');
+                    if (++cursorPosition == more_authors_text.length){
+                      clearInterval(textAdder);
+                    }
+                  }, 15);
+                "
+            >{{more_authors_hide}}</span>
+          {% endif %}
+
           </div>
 
           <!-- Journal/Book title and date -->

_pages/publications.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: page
 permalink: /publications/
 title: publications
 description: publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.
-years: [1956, 1950, 1935, 1905]
+years: [1967, 1956, 1950, 1935, 1905]
 nav: true
 nav_order: 1
 ---

_sass/_base.scss

@@ -519,6 +519,15 @@ footer.sticky-bottom {
           border-bottom: 1px solid;
           font-style: normal;
         }
+        > span.more-authors {
+          color: var(--global-text-color-light);
+          border-bottom: 1px dashed var(--global-text-color-light);
+          cursor: pointer;
+          &:hover {
+              color: var(--global-text-color);
+              border-bottom: 1px dashed var(--global-text-color);
+          }
+        }
       }
       .links {
         a.btn {