4.10 Collection Navigation Commands ↑

4.10.1 Generate an Authors Table

As an extension to the original Markdown spec from John Gruber, a table of cited authors may be generated by placing the literal {:authors-table} on a line by itself, as in the following example:

{:authors-table}

The Authors Table will gather its data about authors from all of the notes in the collection that have a class value of author, which is one of the Special Class Values.

The Title field of these author notes is expected to contain each author’s name (typically, last name first, as is typical of a bibliography .

The resulting table will have three columns:

1. The author’s last name.
2. The author’s complete name, first name first.
3. The years that the author lived, taken from an expected Author Years field.

In addition, if the viewer hovers over the author’s complete name, brief info about the author will appear, taken from an expected Author Info field.

The generated table will be sortable, incorporating the relevant code used in the sort-table command.