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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
