FR: Option to not export "title" and "author"

[sandinmyjoints]

Similar to kawabata#83. When I export to gfm, my name is being rendered at the top of the output, like:

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author: William Bert
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It's not in the output if I run pandoc directly with the same flags that ox-pandoc says it's using. I'm not sure where ox-pandoc is getting it from, perhaps from user-full-name. I'd like to be able to suppress it.

[a-fent]

Thanks for the report. Could you point me to the flags that you use with pandoc to suppress this? Can you use these in #+PANDOC_OPTIONS:?

[sandinmyjoints]

I haven't used/found any flags to suppress it. When I run org-pandoc-export-as-gfm, it prints a message to the *Messages* buffer saying Running pandoc with args: (-f org -t gfm --wrap=preserve --standalone /Users/william/notes/stories/new-stories.tmphFfty8.org).

So then I tried running that command myself. I ran it against the original file, not the temp file that ox-pandoc created, since that's gone:

$ pandoc -f org -t gfm --wrap=preserve --standalone new-stories.org

The output from the ox-pandoc command has the author metadata in it. The output from running pandoc directly does not. So I'm stumped as to where it's coming from.

[a-fent]

Yes, it's coming from user-full-name, which Org Mode's built-in exporters add as #+AUTHOR: even if not explicitly given in the file. If you do, for example C-c C-e h H you'll see your name is added as author to an HTML export.

The solution is to either globally set the variable org-export-with-author to nil or in the specific file you want to suppress author information adding #+OPTIONS: author:nil. I hope this clears it up.

[sandinmyjoints]

Yeah, that makes sense, thanks. I tried both of those and they did remove the author value, though the metadata section (for lack of a better term) is still there at the top of the file, just empty now:

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Perhaps I can do some post-processing in a hook to remove that.