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Quarto fails to pass author metadata when output is pdf

In a .qmd file it is possible to add metadata to authors, like email, affiliations, etc, following a template as explained here: https://quarto.org/docs/journals/authors.html#author-schema.

When I render the document to pdf, these author-related metadata do not appear in the final document. In fact they are converted into true statements that can be found as is in the .tex file.

How to successfully pass author metadata to the pdf output?

Here is a minimalist YALM that reproduce the problem:

---
title: "Untitled"
author: 
  - name:
      given: Norah
      family: Jones
      literal: Norah Jones
format:
  pdf: default
editor: visual
---

If I render this YALM in a .qmd file, I get the following output: enter image description here

Further investigation in the .tex file generated during the transformation process shows that the value true is passed into the latex command \author{true} (line 146). Am I missing something?

However, if the author name is passed like below, it seems to work but then how to pass other metadatas such as email, etc. ?

---
title: "Untitled"
author: 
  - name: Norah Jones
format:
  pdf:
    keep-md: true
    keep-tex: true
editor: visual
---

enter image description here

Solution

  • This behavior was identified as a bug: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/3483 and is still around in version Quarto v1.2.335. However, it is fixed in the pre-release version v1.3.269; "Fix author processing in default PDFs for complex author names (#3483)".

    Updating the version of Quarto from v1.2.335 to v1.3.269 fixed the problem.

    ---
title: "Untitled"
author: 
  - name:
      given: Norah
      family: Jones
format:
  pdf:
    keep-tex: true
editor: visual
---

    enter image description here