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Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how best to tell org not to display my name
> and the date at the top of the page when it exports document.
> Currently, it seems I can do htis by setting
>
> #+OPTIONS: author:nil date:nil
>
> However, this also removes the relevant info from the file metadata.
> I would prefer to somehow change the export template so that these
> lines aren't produced.  Anyone know if that's possible? Would I have
> to modify ox-odt.el directly -- and is that hard to do?  It looks like
> the relevant lines in that file are around 1488-1541.  I'm a little
> loathe to modify the code directly though, as I like to just git pull
> from the master branch...

I have difficulty grasping what you are saying here.  You are talking
about meta.xml and content.xml.

You want title and author in ... and don't want title and author in ....

Better still, on what counts is the current arrangement unsatisfactory.
i.e., what is your use-case?

> Thanks!
> Matt