Exporting multiple #+AUTHOR keywords (was: [DISCUSSION] Allowing footnote-references inside parsed keywords (#+AUTHOR, #+TITLE, etc))

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Sorry if this is off topic, but something like this:
>
> #+AUTHOR: Fred Astaire
> #+AUTHOR: Ginger Rogers
>
> is exported to LaTeX as:
>
> \author{Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers}
>
> Shouldn't there be some separation? In LaTeX the usual thing is:
>
> \author{Fred Astaire \and Ginger Rogers}

You can do

#+AUTHOR: Fred
#+AUTHOR: Astaire
#+AUTHOR: and Ginger
#+AUTHOR: Rogers

The values are simply concatenated before passing to the exporter.

Can we concatenate with "\and"? Sure. But not by default or it would be
a breaking change.

In fact, you can already concatenate with "\and" when exporting
subtrees:

(push '("EXPORT_AUTHOR" . "\\and ") org-property-separators)

then

* This is test
:PROPERTIES:
:EXPORT_AUTHOR: John Doe
:EXPORT_AUTHOR+: David Stefanson
:END:
Text.

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