From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Ecay Subject: Re: [Exporter] Why is :author a list in the communication channel? Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:30:25 -0400 Message-ID: <87li16qw4m.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87wqkqczb0.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcjhk-000327-L6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:30:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcjhc-0003xy-95 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:30:04 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22c]:39963) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vcjhc-0003xG-3z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:29:56 -0400 Received: by mail-qa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id cm18so1358305qab.17 for ; Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wqkqczb0.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Thorsten Jolitz , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Thorsten, I would have expected multiple author lines to have this effect, so that your desired list of two authors would be generated by: ,---- | #+author: Thorsten Jolitz | #+author: Thomas Mueller `---- But it seems that only the last #+author line is used; previous ones are discarded. Maybe the :author plist entry should just be converted into a string. But if it remains a list to somehow support multiply-authored documents, I think the most natural way to specify the entries is with multiple lines as above. -- Aaron Ecay