Hi Tory, It looks like having a short and long author isn’t supported by the beamer exporter out of the box. Your best bet is probably to add this line to the top of your org file to turn off the automatic generation and insertion of \author by the export template:
#+OPTIONS: author:nil Then, you can cause the appropriate line to be inserted in the export output with this line (also at the top of the file): #+LATEX_HEADER: \author[short-author]{Really \\long \\author} Whatever is on the latex header line will be inserted in the output verbatim, so you don’t need to (e.g.) add extra escaping to special characters like backslashes as you would if they were processed by org. Hope this is useful, -- Aaron Ecay