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Subject: Re: How to get \\ in title or author?
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Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

> I have a small problem when I want to put a double backslash in the list of
> authors, for example.
>
> #+AUTHOR:    Main author \\ Second one
>
> gets exported in LaTeX as
>
> \author{Main author \\textbackslash{} Second one}
>
> What's not the expected result...
>
> Is this a bug?  Is there a workaround?

The workaround I can think of is to use \linebreak instead of \\.  
"\\" really means "new paragraph" and it doesn't really make sense
in the author or title environment, does it?

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien