Re: [Exporter] Why is :author a list in the communication channel?

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
>> 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.
>
> I can confirm that behaviour ... I'm not sure if I really get the idea
> of a 'typeless secondary' string as mentioned by Nicolas, but in daily
> practice 
>
> ,-----------------------
> | (plist-get info :author)
> `-----------------------
>
> returns a list with one string in it for me ...

Try

  #+AUTHOR: This is *Me*!

The point is that you can have Org objects within AUTHOR (or TITLE, or
DATE). See "secondary string" definition in org-element.el header.

This is orthogonal to the fact that multiple lines are not allowed. For
that, see BEHAVIOUR item in `org-export-options-alist'. In particular,
you can compare "TITLE" and "AUTHOR" entries.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou