Re: export for Beamer with author options

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

Hey Aaron, 

THat's a good idea but it doesn't quite work; looks like #+LATEX_HEADER stuff is put in BEFORE the author nil, so I just end up with \author{} to trump my author. I've tried rearranging things but it doesn't seem to effect it. 

- Tory

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Tory,
>
> It looks like having a short and long author isn’t supported by the
> beamer exporter out of the box.  Your best bet is probably to add this
> line to the top of your org file to turn off the automatic generation
> and insertion of \author by the export template:
>
> #+OPTIONS: author:nil
>
> Then, you can cause the appropriate line to be inserted in the export
> output with this line (also at the top of the file):
>
> #+LATEX_HEADER: \author[short-author]{Really \\long \\author}
>
> Whatever is on the latex header line will be inserted in the output
> verbatim, so you don’t need to (e.g.) add extra escaping to special
> characters like backslashes as you would if they were processed by org.
>
> Hope this is useful,