[Tex/LaTex] Suppress ORCID author footnote in els-cas-templates document class

authorels-casfootnotes

I’m using the els-cas-templates LaTeX package (doc). I will be submitting to an Elsevier journal, which allows this official package for submission. I have not touched any of the template files. I am editing/building on Overleaf.

I have not provided any ORCIDs for the authors, however there is still a blank ORCID footnote being displayed. How do I suppress that without modifying the template? I have emailed the package authors, but have yet to receive a reply.

Here is my LaTeX author code:

\author[1]{John Smith}
\cormark[1]
\ead{jsmith@example.com}
\author[2]{John Doe}

The title page footnotes look like this:

But they should look like this (format)(copied from published article):

Also there is an email img instead of the word "E-mail address". I can ask that as a separate question if requested.

Best Answer

Simply put,

\documentclass[a4paper,fleqn]{cas-sc}   
\renewcommand{\printorcid}{}  % this will make this function do nothing.
\ ...

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[Tex/LaTex] els-cas-templates no highlighting of author names

An easy solution is to explicitly set the author names in black.

MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,fleqn,draft]{cas-dc}

\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\bibliographystyle{cas-model2-names}

\begin{document}

\let\WriteBookmarks\relax
\def\floatpagepagefraction{1}
\def\textpagefraction{.001}

\shorttitle{Short title}
\shortauthors{J. Smith et~al.}

\title [mode = title]{Here is a title}                      

\author[1]{\color{black}John Smith}
\cormark[1]
\ead{some@email.com}
\author[2]{\color{black}John Doe}
\address[1]{School A}
\address[2]{School B}

\cortext[cor1]{Corresponding author.}

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\begin{keywords}
some \sep keywords \sep here
\end{keywords}

\maketitle

\end{document}

Result:

A more involved solution (but conceptually maybe better) is to redefine the \author macro from within the main document. Unfortunately the macro is rather long, so this takes space in the document (I tried an xpatch solution but I could not make that work). The author first names are printed with color \l_stm_augroup_color_tl !50, so 50% of the default black (rendering as gray). Changing this to just \l_stm_augroup_color_tl renders the first names as black.

Code:

\documentclass[a4paper,fleqn,draft]{cas-dc}

\usepackage[authoryear]{natbib}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\makeatletter
\ExplSyntaxOn
\RenewDocumentCommand \author { O{} m O{} }
   {
     \ResetMarks
     \tl_if_blank:nTF { #3 } { }
       { \keys_set:nn { stm / author } { #3 } }
%
     \int_gincr:N \g_stm_au_int  
     \tex_gdef:D \theau@ { \int_use:N \g_stm_au_int }
%
     \seq_gput_right:Nn \g_stm_prelimsau_seq { #2 }
     \bool_if:NTF \l_stm_au_collab_bool
       { \seq_gput_right:cn { g_stm_clau\int_use:N \g_stm_augr_int _seq } }
       { \seq_gput_right:cn { g_stm_au\int_use:N \g_stm_augr_int _seq } }
       {          
         \int_gincr:N \g_stm_aau_int  
         \tex_gdef:D \theauthor {\int_use:N \g_stm_aau_int }
         \keys_set:nn { stm /author } { #3 }
         \tl_if_head_eq_catcode:nNTF { #1 } a
            { \processAffRef { #1 } }
            { \processAffNum { #1 } }
         \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_prefix
            { \l_stm_au_prefix_tl \c_space_token } 
         \str_if_eq:VnTF \l_stm_au_style_tl  { chinese }
            { %\msg_term:n {STYLE~T=\l_stm_au_style_tl........}
              \invparsename { #2 } 
              \textcolor{\l_stm_augroup_color_tl}{\surname}
              \no_break_space:
              \textcolor{\l_stm_augroup_color_tl}{\firstname}  %%% CHANGE HERE
            }
            { %\msg_term:n {STYLE~F=\l_stm_au_style_tl........}  
              \parsename { #2 } 
              \textcolor{\l_stm_augroup_color_tl}{\firstname} %%% AND HERE
              \no_break_space:
              \textcolor{\l_stm_augroup_color_tl}{\surname}
            }
        \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_suffix_tl
        { \c_space_token \l_stm_au_suffix_tl }
         \unskip
         \textsuperscript
         {
           \tl_if_blank:nTF { #1 }
           { \tex_def:D \sep{} }
           { {\itshape\listAff} \tex_def:D \sep{\unskip,} }
           \process@marks 
           \bool_if:NT \l_stm_au_deceased_bool 
           { \sep \maltese
             \tex_def:D \sep { \unksip, }
           }
         }
        \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_degree_tl
        { ,\c_space_token \l_stm_au_degree_tl }
        \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_role_tl
        { \c_space_token (\l_stm_au_role_tl) }
%
       \ResetMarks
      }
%
      \bool_if:NT \l_stm_au_deceased_bool 
       { 
        \seq_gput_right:Nn \g_stm_maltese_seq
         {
          \tex_def:D \thefootnote { \maltese }
          \footnotetext{Deceased~author.} 
         } 
       }
% various social media
      \tl_if_empty:NTF \l_stm_au_facebook_tl { }
        { 
          \wrAux { \token_to_str:N \facebookauthor
            { \l_stm_au_facebook_tl } { \exp_not:n {#2} } }
        }
      \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_twitter_tl
        { 
          \wrAux { \token_to_str:N \twitterauthor
            { \l_stm_au_twitter_tl } { \exp_not:n {#2} } }
        }
      \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_gplus_tl
        { 
          \wrAux { \token_to_str:N \gplusauthor
            { \l_stm_au_gplus_tl } { \exp_not:n {#2} } }
        }
      \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_linkedin_tl
        { 
          \wrAux { \token_to_str:N \linkedinauthor
            { \l_stm_au_linkedin_tl } { \exp_not:n {#2} } }
        }
      \tl_if_empty:NF \l_stm_au_orcid_tl
        { 
          \wrAux { \token_to_str:N \orcidauthor
            { \l_stm_au_orcid_tl } { \exp_not:n {#2} } }
        }
%
        \@eadauthor={#2}
        \pdfstringdef\__info_au: { #2 }
        \int_compare:nNnTF { \theau@ } < { 4 }
        { \xappto \infoauthors { \__info_au: , ~ } }
        {
          \int_compare:nNnTF { \theau@ } = { 4 }
          { \xappto \infoauthors { et~al. } }
          { }
        }        
    }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\makeatother

\bibliographystyle{cas-model2-names}

\begin{document}

\let\WriteBookmarks\relax
\def\floatpagepagefraction{1}
\def\textpagefraction{.001}

\shorttitle{Short title}
\shortauthors{J. Smith et~al.}

\title [mode = title]{Here is a title}                      

\author[1]{John Smith}
\cormark[1]
\ead{some@email.com}
\author[2]{John Doe}
\address[1]{School A}
\address[2]{School B}

\cortext[cor1]{Corresponding author.}

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\begin{keywords}
some \sep keywords \sep here
\end{keywords}

\maketitle

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] \msg_term:n deprecated error in cas-dc (els-cas)

The problem is, as the error message says, that \msg_term:n is deprecated. This function along with a couple others were removed from the LaTeX3 kernel because they were not correctly named.

I mailed the Elsevier team responsible for their LaTeX packages and they updated (26-02-2020) the els-cas-templates package to address this issue. With an up-to-date system you shouldn't experience this issue.

For the next few months (until July 1st, 2020) you can have \msg_term:n back by loading expl3 with undo-recent-deprecations:

\RequirePackage[undo-recent-deprecations]{expl3}
%
\documentclass{cas-dc}
\usepackage{natbib}
\begin{document}
\tnotetext[1]{}
\end{document}

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