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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/4-template.md b/docs/tutorial/4-template.md index 3b745db5..a96e7c0a 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/4-template.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/4-template.md @@ -195,17 +195,17 @@ Next, we copy the code that generates title, abstract and authors from the previous chapter into the template, replacing the fixed details with the parameters. -The new `authors` parameter expects an [array]($array) of -[dictionaries]($dictionary) with the keys `name`, `affiliation` and `email`. -Because we can have an arbitrary number of authors, we dynamically determine if -we need one, two or three columns for the author list. First, we determine the -number of authors using the [`.len()`]($array.len) method on the `authors` -array. Then, we set the number of columns as the minimum of this count and -three, so that we never create more than three columns. If there are more than -three authors, a new row will be inserted instead. For this purpose, we have -also added a `row-gutter` parameter to the `grid` function. Otherwise, the rows -would be too close together. To extract the details about the authors from the -dictionary, we use the [field access syntax]($scripting/#fields). +The new `authors` parameter expects an [array] of [dictionaries]($dictionary) +with the keys `name`, `affiliation` and `email`. Because we can have an +arbitrary number of authors, we dynamically determine if we need one, two or +three columns for the author list. First, we determine the number of authors +using the [`.len()`]($array.len) method on the `authors` array. Then, we set the +number of columns as the minimum of this count and three, so that we never +create more than three columns. If there are more than three authors, a new row +will be inserted instead. For this purpose, we have also added a `row-gutter` +parameter to the `grid` function. Otherwise, the rows would be too close +together. To extract the details about the authors from the dictionary, we use +the [field access syntax]($scripting/#fields). We still have to provide an argument to the grid for each author: Here is where the array's [`map` method]($array.map) comes in handy. It takes a function as an |