markdown.obsidian.personal.authors

Functions for managing the original authors of the texts in one’s personal Obsidian.md math vault.

The convention we use for author names is either <family_name> or <family_name>_<given_name>_<middle_or_other_initial>. The letters are all in lower case and spaces are replaced with underscores _, but hyphens - are preserved. All accents from names are removed. For example, gauss (for Carl Friedrich Gauss), kim_hyun_jong (for Hyun Jong Kim, the author of trouver; note that his given name is Hyun Jong and his family name is Kim), ellenberg_jordan_s (for Jordan Stuart Ellenberg), doleans-dade_catherine (for Catherine Doléans-Dade), and verdier_jean-louis (for Jean-Louis Verdier) are examples of names formatted under this convention.

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just_last_name

 just_last_name (author_name)

Return True if the author’s name is formatted to only have the last name.

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find_author_file

 find_author_file (vault:os.PathLike, author_name:str,
                   author_folder:str='mathematicians')

*Return path to the file for the specified author.

Raises - AssertionError - If author_folder does not exist in vault or if the requirements of author_name are not met.*

	Type	Default	Details
vault	PathLike
author_name	str		Either just the last name, e.g. "serre" or formatted as "{family_name}_{given_name}_{middle or other initial}", e.g. "little_john_b", "lockhart_paul". In the former case, the mathematician’s last name must be unique in the vault. In the latter case, the str must identically match the mathematician’s file name in the vault.
author_folder	str	mathematicians	The directory where the author files are found in, relative to vault.
Returns	Optional		Relative to vault / author_folder. None if no such author file exists.