On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 05:50:01PM +1000, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 6 May 2011 17:18, Josef Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:04:54PM +1200, Stuart Rackham wrote:
> >> On 05/05/11 20:13, Josef Wolf wrote:
> >> >Hello everybody,
> >> >
> >> >is it possible to have more than one author for a given document? Often,
> >> >(especially in open source projects) documentation is created and 
> >> >maintained
> >> >by multiple people. Sometimes projects are orphaned and a new maintainer
> >> >jumps in. But from the documentation, it seems that only one author is
> >> >supported by asciidoc?
> >>
> >> Try this FAQ:
> >> http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/faq.html#_how_can_i_assign_multiple_author_names
> >>
> >> The docinfo route is the way to go for true multiple authors and
> >> other metadata such as revision history. DocBook has a rich and
> >> diverse set of tags for meta-data, AsciiDoc only supports a few of
> >> them directly but with the docinfo feature you have the option of
> >> using any or all the DocBook meta-data elements.
> >
> > Thanks, that works (for HTML output at least). For PDF output, the author
> > information is missing. Any hints?
> 
> Did you use the docinfo method IAW the FAQ?

I used the docinfo method (sorry, I should have written this in the first
place)

> Because of the format of
> author entries in docbook (ie containing firstname, othername, surname
> entries) the very_long_name_that_is_spaced_by_asciidoc technique won't
> work for docbook since asciidoc doesn't know where to break it, so
> only the docinfo works for docbook and since HTML doesn't understand
> docinfo only the very_long etc method works for HTML.

Actually, it is the other way around. HTML works (although somewhat ugly).
It is PDF that doesn't work.

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