Does something like this work for you: #+options: author:nil #+author: Test author - not shown in export
@@odt:<text:author-name>First author line</text:author-name><text:line-break/><text:author-name>Second line</text:author-name>@@ Testing with content This exports to ODT like this for me: [image: image.png] John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his) Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:24 AM Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 > > -- > : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.6-628-g366444 > : Latest paper written in org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05096 > >
