Rjournal template: optional url field in the YAML

[huizezhang-sherry]

Using the Rjournal template with the optional url field removed generates an undesirable line break in the author's signature.

Here is a minimal reproducible example: https://github.com/huizezhang-sherry/rticle-author-field. In my-article/my-article.Rmd, when the optional url field is unspecified for the first author (line 5- 11), the generated pdf produces a line break in between address and orcid.

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[cderv]

Thanks I think this is an issue with the template

rticles/inst/rmarkdown/templates/rjournal/resources/template.tex

Lines 19 to 31 in 4afb44c

	$for(author)$
	\address{%
	$author.name$\\
	$author.affiliation$\\%
	$for(author.address)$$author.address$$sep$\\ $endfor$\\
	$if(author.affiliation2)$
	$author.affiliation2$\\%
	$for(author.address2)$$author.address2$$sep$\\ $endfor$\\
	$endif$%
	$if(author.url)$$author.url$$endif$%
	$if(author.orcid)$\\\textit{ORCiD: \href{https://orcid.org/$author.orcid$}{$author.orcid$}}$endif$%
	$if(author.email)$\\$author.email$$endif$
	}

The newline character should be inserted in the right place inside the conditional so that it is not inserted if url is not provided.

[cderv]

Hi @huizezhang-sherry

This should be solved with current dev version

remotes::install_github("rstudio/rticles")

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