Support superscripts in bibtex author names

[garywei944]

Implements #2511

[george-gca]

This is indeed a very nice addition. Thanks for your contribution. My only question is, do you think displaying these characters in the publications page is useful? I mean, you'll see an asterisk but nothing will tell you what that means unless you open the paper. What do you think about simply removing from their names insted?

[garywei944]

That's a good point. My use case is only to use * for shared first authorship and † for corresponding authors. I also noticed that some science papers only use * for corresponding authors (like this and this). For people in my community, it's clear what * and † mean in the author list if they appear at the beginning and back. It may lead to confusion if other superscripts are also used without annotation displayed.

My proposal to this is either

1. Following what the old version of Wowchemy does, use pop-up windows to explain each superscript. But this would require users to maintain a list-like-structured-annotations in the BibTex entry. Like this one
2. Have a pop-up annotation somewhere in the publication entry saying that * for equal contribution. † for corresponding authors (Let me give it a shoot)

I would prefer to keep the superscripts rather than simply remove them. Because if the users intend to include them in the BibTex and find that it doesn't work. it would be very frustrating.

[george-gca]

I agree with you, I was only giving an easier solution. I like the idea of 2.

About the symbols, these might be a convention in your area of study, but that is not true for all. There are cases that the convention you said is used, sure, like in this paper. But sometimes they indicate something else, like in this one where † means equal advising, or even this one where * means Work done during an internship at Facebook AI Research and † means Corresponding author. There is also the case where numbers or symbols are used to indicate emails. This might change in a per paper basis, so it is kind of hard to create a one legend fits them all here.

[garywei944]

I endded up with adding an annotation entry to the BibTex

@inproceedings{Vaswani2017AttentionIA,
  title={Attention is All you Need},
  author={Ashish Vaswani* and Noam M. Shazeer* and Niki Parmar* and Jakob Uszkoreit* and Llion Jones* and Aidan N. Gomez*† and Lukasz Kaiser* and Illia Polosukhin*‡},
  booktitle={Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2017},
  bibtex_show={true},
  annotation={* Equal contribution. Listing order is random.<br>† Work performed while at Google Brain.<br>‡ Work performed while at Google Research.}
}

[george-gca]

This looks really nice. Can you please add a screenshot of how it looks like in dark mode?

[garywei944]

Sure! The solid info icon will become white.

[george-gca]

Can you make that the pop up also turn dark on dark theme? Maybe use the card color.

[garywei944]

Sure, now the popover follows theme colors

[george-gca]

@garywei944 just now I realized that you didn't add an example of how to do this in our template. Would you mind modifying a bib reference in our template just to add an example of how this works? This way it is easier for our users to see that this features exists and how it can be implemented for their repo.

[garywei944]

Sure, but I see no Albert Einstein's paper is using superscript. Do you mind me just adding the paper "Attention is all you need" to the publications? Best, Gary

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[george-gca]

Idk, maybe just modify one of its references? Change one that has multiple authors and add the * Equal contribution, what do you think?

The good thing about the Attention is all you need is that it has multiple examples though.