Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> writes: > ... I think the basic problem is that org uses #+author, #+title, etc. > as a single source for both the metadata strings and the exported > format, i.e. the title, the author, the date that is printed somewhere. > > Perhaps the ideal would be to distinguish in some way between > author-metadata and author-exported-format. For example something like: > > #+AUTHOR[John Doe and Luke Skywalker]: John Doe @@latex:\and@@ Luke > Skywalker > > The optional string in square brackets would be the metadata; the rest > would be the direct exported format. If there is no optional string, the > value is used for both metadata and format. Could this be also a > possible solution to the footnote problem?
Another option is to have a new set of keywords: #+LATEX_AUTHOR: <author with formatting goes here> #+HTML_AUTHOR: ... For multiple authors, we may introduce something like #+AUTHOR: John Doe #+AUTHOR+: Luke Skywalker That should be fully backwards-compatible. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
