inline author lists for book type (like for papers)

[michaelaye]

Description

I'd like a feature to have authors listed inline like this example from Myst Markdown:

and not in this vertically stacked list looking quite less appealing than the Myst Markdown example:

If this would be possible using themes, I had another reason to finally learn creating themes (and design branded templates for my university, which would be cool as well ;) ).

I know I can "hack" this by using a long string for the author keyword, but seeing all the infrastructure you made around managing author metadata, that would be quite sad, wouldn't it?

As always, thanks for Quarto, it's awesome!

[mcanouil]

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[mcanouil]

You can define your own title block using the partial and do as you wish: https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html

See other discussions about customising the title-block.html partial such as:

• https://github.com/orgs/quarto-dev/discussions/13377

[mcanouil]

---
title: "Quarto Playground"
authors:
  - "John Doe"
  - "Jane Smith"
  - "Alex Johnson"
  - "Emily Davis"
format:
  html:
    template-partials:
      - title-block.html
---

This is a playground for Quarto.

{{< lipsum 1 >}}

![An image]({{< placeholder 600 400 >}}){#fig-placeholder}

<header id="title-block-header">
  $if(title)$<h1 class="title">$title$</h1>$endif$
  $if(subtitle)$
  <p class="subtitle">$subtitle$</p>
  $endif$
  <p class="author"></p>$for(by-author)$$it.name.literal$$sep$, $endfor$</p>
  $if(date)$
  <p class="date">$date$</p>
  $endif$
  $if(abstract)$
  <div class="abstract">
    <div class="abstract-title">$abstract-title$</div>
    $abstract$
  </div>
  $endif$
</header>