Re: how to get multi-line author in ODT export?

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi Eric,

I think the problem is in this two lines of `org-odt-template', that
creates the meta.xml file inside the odt file:

(format "<dc:creator>%s</dc:creator>\n" author)
(format "<meta:initial-creator>%s</meta:initial-creator>\n" author)

Perhaps, modifying them like this:

(format "<dc:creator><![CDATA[%s]]></dc:creator>\n" (replace-regexp-in-string 
"\\\\\\\\" "\n" author))
(format "<meta:initial-creator><![CDATA[%s]]></meta:initial-creator>\n" 
(replace-regexp-in-string "\\\\\\\\" "\n" author))

We could do this in our documents:

#+AUTHOR: Han Solo \\ Chewbacca

(little tested)

Best regards,

Juan Manuel 

Eric S Fraga writes:

> So, as usual, I answer my own question, sort of.
>
> The problem is that org exports the author text enclosed within a
> special directives, specifically:
>
>  (format "<text:initial-creator>%s</text:initial-creator>" author))
>  
> New line directives are not allowed within this declaration, it
> seems.  Removing (manually) the initial-creator directive then works.
>
> So, my question would be: is this text:initial-creator tagging
> necessary?  If not, can we remove it?  The OpenDocument schema is vague
> about whether this is necessary.  If we cannot remove it, i.e if
> initial-creator is required in the document, could it be put in
> separately (as a meta:initial-creator tag) so that the author field can
> be more general?
>
> I am *not* an ODT expert of any sort.  But it is my route to Word
> documents when the need arises (which is luckily seldom).
>
> Anyway, no panic: I can simply manually edit the odt file just before
> the final processing...
>
> Thank you,
> eric