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

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Aaron Ecay <address@hidden> 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 ...

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten