#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Create author notes from paper-note frontmatter and keep their paper lists fresh. One note per unique author name in papers/influences frontmatter. Each note carries a GENERATED paper-links section between markers — real wikilinks, so they register in Obsidian's graph and render outside Obsidian (export, GitHub/HF views), unlike dataview blocks. The generated section is refreshed on every run; anything the user writes outside the markers is preserved. python3 _scripts/make_authors.py Also reports author notes that no paper references anymore (possible spelling drift) — it never deletes them. """ import glob import os import re import unicodedata VAULT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) AUTHORS_DIR = os.path.join(VAULT, "authors") STUB = """--- tags: [author] --- # {name} {papers_section}""" MARK_A = "" MARK_B = "" def papers_section(entries): lines = "\n".join(f"- [[{slug}]] ({year}, {venue})" if venue else f"- [[{slug}]] ({year})" for slug, year, venue in entries) or "- (none currently)" return f"{MARK_A}\n## Papers in this vault\n\n{lines}\n{MARK_B}\n" def main() -> None: os.makedirs(AUTHORS_DIR, exist_ok=True) by_author = {} for path in glob.glob(os.path.join(VAULT, "papers", "*.md")) + glob.glob(os.path.join(VAULT, "influences", "*.md")): txt = open(path, encoding="utf-8").read() fm = txt.split("---")[1] m = re.search(r"^authors: \[(.*)\]$", fm, flags=re.M) if not m: continue slug = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(path))[0] ym = re.search(r"^year:\s*(\d+)", fm, flags=re.M) vm = re.search(r'^venue:\s*"?(.*?)"?\s*$', fm, flags=re.M) year = ym.group(1) if ym else "?" venue = (vm.group(1) if vm else "")[:40] for name in re.findall(r"\[\[(.+?)\]\]", m.group(1)): by_author.setdefault(name, []).append((slug, year, venue)) names = set(by_author) created, refreshed = 0, 0 for name in sorted(names): entries = sorted(by_author[name], key=lambda e: (e[1], e[0])) # year, then slug: stable across machines section = papers_section(entries) out = os.path.join(AUTHORS_DIR, f"{name}.md") if not os.path.exists(out): with open(out, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f: f.write(STUB.format(name=name, papers_section=section)) created += 1 continue txt = open(out, encoding="utf-8").read() if MARK_A in txt and MARK_B in txt: new = re.sub(re.escape(MARK_A) + r".*?" + re.escape(MARK_B) + r"\n?", section, txt, flags=re.S) else: # legacy stub: replace the dataview papers section wholesale new = re.sub(r"## Papers in this vault\n+```dataview.*?```\n?", section, txt, flags=re.S) if new == txt: # enriched/unknown layout: append the generated section new = txt.rstrip() + "\n\n" + section if new != txt: open(out, "w", encoding="utf-8").write(new) refreshed += 1 # macOS may list filenames decomposed (NFD) while notes spell names composed # (NFC): compare in NFC so accented authors are not reported as stale. nfc = lambda s: unicodedata.normalize("NFC", s) existing = {nfc(os.path.splitext(f)[0]) for f in os.listdir(AUTHORS_DIR) if f.endswith(".md")} stale = existing - {nfc(n) for n in names} print(f"authors referenced: {len(names)}, notes created: {created}, link-sections refreshed: {refreshed}") if stale: print(f"notes no paper references (check spelling drift, not deleted): {sorted(stale)}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()