Hello, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Aaron Ecay <aarone...@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. Ok, I understand, so this is all working fine just as intended. For multiple authors one could use a workaround/convention like ,------------------------------------------ | #+author: Thorsten_Jolitz Thomas_Mueller `------------------------------------------ and then split the string two times (first blanks, then underscores). -- cheers, Thorsten
