Re: Exporting multiple #+AUTHOR keywords

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@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.

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