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authorBoud Roukema <boud@cosmo.torun.pl>2020-06-11 15:38:29 +0200
committerMohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>2020-06-17 04:31:53 +0100
commit95058143cdb188cec36a9d6d0294a1610bc6164a (patch)
tree409e9e5fdea9be08ff5f27cd3f359633857777f9
parent1a4066d086222ef88ba5dd9473da6b036775d014 (diff)
Text surrounding software acknowledgements as a configuration file
Until now, the English texts that embeds the list of software to acknowledge in the paper was hard-wired into the low-level coding ('reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh' to be more specific). But this file is very low-level, thus discouraging users to modify this surrounding text. While the list of software packages can be considered to be 'data' and is fixed, the surrounding text to describe the lists is something the authors should decide on. Authors of a scientific research paper take responsibility for the full paper, including for the style of the acknowledgments, even if these may well evolve into some standard text. With this commit, authors who do *not* modify 'reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh' will have a default text, with only a minor English correction from earlier versions of Maneage. However, Authors choosing to use their own wording should be able to modify the text parameters in `reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh` in the obvious way. This is much more modular than asking project authors to go looking into the long and technical 'configure.sh' script. Systematic issues: the file `reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh` is an executable shell script, because it has to be called by `reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh`, which, in principle, does not yet have access to `GNU make` (if I understand the bootstrap sequence correctly). It is placed in `config/` rather than `shell/`, because the user will expect to find configuration files in `config/`, not in `shell/`. A possible alternative to avoid having a shell script as a configure file would be to let `reproduce/software/config/acknowledge_software.sh` appear to be a `make` file, but analyse it in `configure.sh` using `sed` to remove whitespace around `=`, and adding other hacks to switch from `make` syntax to `shell` syntax. However, this risks misleading the user, who will not know whether s/he should follow `make` conventions or `shell` conventions.
-rwxr-xr-xproject11
-rwxr-xr-xreproduce/software/config/software_acknowledge_context.sh112
-rwxr-xr-xreproduce/software/shell/configure.sh23
3 files changed, 130 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/project b/project
index cc2140f..728d488 100755
--- a/project
+++ b/project
@@ -324,11 +324,12 @@ case $operation in
# user to have to worry about any other file that needs an
# executable flag.
#
- # Basically, all the files (shell scripts) in the two
- # `reproduce/*/bash' should need executable flags, so we are giving
- # them executable flags by default. If any other file in your project
- # needs such flags, add them here.
- chmod +x reproduce/software/shell/* reproduce/analysis/bash/*
+ # Basically, all the project shell scripts need executable flags so
+ # to make sure they have them, we are activating the executable
+ # flags by default here every time './project configure' is run. If
+ # any other file in your project needs such flags, add them here.
+ chmod +x reproduce/software/shell/* reproduce/software/config/*.sh \
+ reproduce/analysis/bash/*
# If the user requested, clean the TeX directory from the extra
# (to-be-built) directories that may already be there (and will not
diff --git a/reproduce/software/config/software_acknowledge_context.sh b/reproduce/software/config/software_acknowledge_context.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b0ede85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reproduce/software/config/software_acknowledge_context.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+# Surrounding text for software acknowledgement and citation. The list of
+# names, versions and citations of the software are written by an automatic
+# script. However, through this file, users have the option to specify the
+# text surrounding those lists.
+#
+# We recommend to leave these values untouched at first, after building
+# your PDF, you can see how they surround the list of software you used in
+# your project to make a smoothly readable English text. Afterwards, please
+# feel free to modify them as you wish.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2020 Boud Roukema <boud@cosmo.torun.pl>
+# Copyright (C) 2020 Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>
+#
+# This script is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+# Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
+# option) any later version.
+#
+# This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
+# Public License for more details.
+#
+# A copy of the GNU General Public License is available at
+# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# WARNING:
+# In contrast to most configure files in maneage, this configure file is
+# technically a shell script, to be called by 'configure.sh', so the
+# variables defined here must follow 'shell' syntax, not 'make' syntax.
+
+# These variables will be exported to the 'configure.sh' script - so
+# descriptive, unique names should be used, to reduce the chance of
+# conflicts between identically named variables.
+
+# COMMENT:
+# Sentences have a tendancy to become very long. To avoid making the
+# variable values too long (and thus making this file hard to read), one
+# method is to break the sentence into smaller components and build the
+# full sentence gradually, similar to what we have done with 'str' in the
+# examples below. Each time, the value of 'str' is re-written by appending
+# its previous value with the rest of the sentence.
+
+# COMMENT:
+# As of 2020-06-10, the general issue of how to best cite software within
+# maneage, especially a full list of software in the Acknowledgments
+# section, remains wide open. See
+# https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/index.php?15318 for some technical
+# aspects of software citation.
+
+
+
+
+
+# Add your definitions of the LaTeX text here.
+#
+# To override a default but generate no text, use a string of non-zero
+# length such as "{}" that will have only minor effects in LaTeX.
+
+# An introduction to the software acknowledgement.
+thank_software_introduce=
+
+# The text to be used before listing C/C++ programs and libraries.
+thank_progs_libs=
+
+# The text to be used before listing Python modules.
+thank_python=
+
+# The text to be used before listing LaTeX packages.
+thank_latex=
+
+# Concluding remarks.
+thank_software_conclude=
+
+
+
+
+
+# Defaults
+# --------
+#
+# These are the default values which are only written into the variable if
+# you don't specify a value above
+if [ "x$thank_software_introduce" = "x" ]; then
+ thank_software_introduce=""
+fi
+
+if [ "x$thank_progs_libs" = "x" ]; then
+ str="This research was done with the following free software"
+ str="$str programs and libraries:"
+ thank_progs_libs="$str"
+fi
+
+if [ "x$thank_python" = "x" ]; then
+ thank_python="Within Python, the following modules were used:"
+fi
+
+if [ "x$thank_latex" = "x" ]; then
+ str="The \LaTeX{} source of the paper was compiled to make the"
+ str="$str PDF using the following packages:"
+ thank_latex="$str"
+fi
+
+if [ "x${thank_software_conclude}" = "x" ]; then
+ str="We are very grateful to all their creators for freely "
+ str="$str providing this necessary infrastructure. This research "
+ str="$str (and many other projects) would not be possible without "
+ str="$str them."
+ thank_software_conclude="$str"
+fi
diff --git a/reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh b/reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh
index 1963bc7..68009a2 100755
--- a/reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh
+++ b/reproduce/software/shell/configure.sh
@@ -1387,26 +1387,27 @@ prepare_name_version ()
fi
}
+# Import the context/sentences for placing between the list of software
+# names during their acknowledgment.
+. $cdir/software_acknowledge_context.sh
+
# Report the different software in separate contexts (separating Python and
# TeX packages from the C/C++ programs and libraries).
proglibs=$(prepare_name_version $verdir/proglib/*)
pymodules=$(prepare_name_version $verdir/python/*)
texpkg=$(prepare_name_version $verdir/tex/texlive)
-# Write them as one paragraph for LaTeX.
+# Acknowledge these software packages in a LaTeX paragraph.
pkgver=$mtexdir/dependencies.tex
-.local/bin/echo "This research was done with the following free" > $pkgver
-.local/bin/echo "software programs and libraries: $proglibs." >> $pkgver
+
+# Add the text to the ${pkgver} file.
+.local/bin/echo "$thank_software_introduce " > $pkgver
+.local/bin/echo "$thank_progs_libs $proglibs. " >> $pkgver
if [ x"$pymodules" != x ]; then
- .local/bin/echo "Within Python, the following modules" >> $pkgver
- echo "were used: $pymodules." >> $pkgver
+ .local/bin/echo "$thank_python $pymodules. " >> $pkgver
fi
-.local/bin/echo "The \LaTeX{} source of the paper was compiled" >> $pkgver
-.local/bin/echo "to make the PDF using the following packages:" >> $pkgver
-.local/bin/echo "$texpkg. We are very grateful to all their" >> $pkgver
-.local/bin/echo "creators for freely providing this necessary" >> $pkgver
-.local/bin/echo "infrastructure. This research (and many " >> $pkgver
-.local/bin/echo "others) would not be possible without them." >> $pkgver
+.local/bin/echo "$thank_latex $texpkg. " >> $pkgver
+.local/bin/echo "$thank_software_conclude" >> $pkgver
# Prepare the BibTeX entries for the used software (if there are any).
hasentry=0