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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Exporter] Why is :author a list in the communication channel?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:10:42 +0100
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Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> 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