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The template:list enables a very flexible way to add content from a list YAML list. This parses a local data file, gives you access to the list (specified by the path) and then loops over the content using Jinja style templates (see Nunjucks docs for syntax). For example, if you have a series of blog articles, people or news, you might have a simple YAML file like:

news.yml

news:
  - title: Launch of Elemental Microscopy covered in Nature
    url: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02577-1
    date: August 2024
    image: https://media.nature.com/lw767/magazine-assets/d41586-024-02577-1/d41586-024-02577-1_27432946.jpg
    description: |
      Elemental Microscopy, a publication focused on reviews and methods tutorials, leverages an authoring and
      publishing platform called Curvenote to create rich, interactive, digital papers
      with coding and data analysis at their heart.
    tags:
      - journal
      - interactive
  - title: Curvenote Sponsors SciPy 2024 and supports the SciPy Proceedings
    url: https://curvenote.com/news/curvenote-sponsors-scipy-proceedings-2024
    date: April 8, 2024
    image: ./images/scipy-2024-thumbnail.webp
    description: |
      Curvenote is hosting the SciPy proceedings and is a Gold-level sponsor of the SciPy 2024 conference.
      The new proceedings, hosted by Curvenote, are web-first and interactive.
      Curvenote is supporting the 2024 proceedings from automated submission, through to hosting and
      metadata preparation including submission to scholarly infrastructure providers like CrossRef and ORCID.
    tags:
      - conference
      - community

List of Items¶

The default for the template:list is a bullet list, and for example, you can show the title using {{ title }}:

::::{template:list} news.yml
:path: news
{{ title }}
::::

Which creates:

Launch of Elemental Microscopy covered in Nature
Curvenote Sponsors SciPy 2024 and supports the SciPy Proceedings

The available template options that you can use are the ones that are defined in your object. If something is not available in all objects, use the {% if date %}{{ date }}{% endif %} syntax.

List of Links¶

A slightly more complicated example, might limit the number of elements shown, puts the title in a markdown link ([title](url)) and adds an optional date. In this example, there is also a different final element to see more news. You can add whatever markdown you wish, it is parsed as normal!

::::{template:list} news.yml
:limit: 3
:last: [More News](https://curvenote.com/news) ...
:path: news
[{{title}}{% if date %} - [{{date}}]{% endif %}]({{url}})
::::

Which creates:

List of Blogs¶

You can also change the parent element that is used, away from a list item and into, for example, grid. If you want to supply options to that parent element, you can use JSON and it will be used as the AST directly. In this case we are using that grid with each child being rendered as a card:blog to show a appealing blog-like list of cards.

::::{template:list} news.yml
:path: news
:parent: {"type": "grid", "columns": [1,2,2,2]}
:::{card:blog} {{title}}
:link: {{url}}
:image: {{image}}
:date: {% if date %}{{date}}{% endif %}
:tags: {% if tags %}{{tags.join(',')}}{% endif %}

{% if description -%}{{description}}{%- endif %}
:::
::::

Launch of Elemental Microscopy covered in Nature

Elemental Microscopy, a publication focused on reviews and methods tutorials, leverages an authoring and publishing platform called Curvenote to create rich, interactive, digital papers with coding and data analysis at their heart.

Curvenote Sponsors SciPy 2024 and supports the SciPy Proceedings

Curvenote is hosting the SciPy proceedings and is a Gold-level sponsor of the SciPy 2024 conference. The new proceedings, hosted by Curvenote, are web-first and interactive. Curvenote is supporting the 2024 proceedings from automated submission, through to hosting and metadata preparation including submission to scholarly infrastructure providers like CrossRef and ORCID.