That is really nice, thanks for sharing it! John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his) Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:55 PM Juan Manuel Macías wrote: > Hi again, > > Another simpler approach, with a filter: > > #+TITLE: The kessel run in 12 parsecs > #+AUTHOR: Han Solo !!! Chewbacca !!! Lando Calrissian > > #+BIND: org-export-filter-plain-text-functions (author-lb-filter) > #+begin_src emacs-lisp :exports results :results none > (defun author-lb-filter (text backend info) > (cond ((org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'odt) > (replace-regexp-in-string "!!!" "\n" text)) > ((org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'latex) > (replace-regexp-in-string "!!!" "\\\\\\\\" text)))) > #+end_src > > Content... > > Best regards, > > Juan Manuel > > Juan Manuel Macías writes: > > > Hi Eric, > > > > I think the problem is in this two lines of `org-odt-template', that > > creates the meta.xml file inside the odt file: > > > > (format "%s\n" author) > > (format "%s\n" author) > > > > Perhaps, modifying them like this: > > > > (format "\n" > (replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\\\\\" "\n" author)) > > (format "\n" > (replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\\\\\" "\n" author)) > > > > We could do this in our documents: > > > > #+AUTHOR: Han Solo \\ Chewbacca > > > > (little tested) > > > > Best regards, > > > > Juan Manuel > > > > Eric S Fraga writes: > > > >> So, as usual, I answer my own question, sort of. > >> > >> The problem is that org exports the author text enclosed within a > >> special directives, specifically: > >> > >> (format "%s" author)) > >> > >> New line directives are not allowed within this declaration, it > >> seems. Removing (manually) the initial-creator directive then works. > >> > >> So, my question would be: is this text:initial-creator tagging > >> necessary? If not, can we remove it? The OpenDocument schema is vague > >> about whether this is necessary. If we cannot remove it, i.e if > >> initial-creator is required in the document, could it be put in > >> separately (as a meta:initial-creator tag) so that the author field can > >> be more general? > >> > >> I am *not* an ODT expert of any sort. But it is my route to Word > >> documents when the need arises (which is luckily seldom). > >> > >> Anyway, no panic: I can simply manually edit the odt file just before > >> the final processing... > >> > >> Thank you, > >> eric > > > > > >