Re: [O] #+HOMEPAGE in metadata - feature request?

[Nick Dokos]

Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:

> Dnia 2014-03-22, o godz. 00:44:40
> Bastien <address@hidden> napisał(a):
>
>> Hi Marcin,
>> 
>> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > So the problem is: it would be (imho) useful to have a "homepage"
>> > added to general metadata, but it is not clear how to translate
>> > this to e.g. LaTeX's (rather ancient) concept of metadata.
>> > (Interestingly, some other classes, e.g. memoir, koma-script and
>> > titlepage, also do not seem to cater for this need.  I'm going to
>> > ask on TeX.SE if there's any class/package enabling putting a url
>> > on the titlepage...)  So while (I assume) adding a #+HOMEPAGE
>> > field/option in Org would be easy, it is not obvious how to render
>> > it for different exporters.
>> 
>> Thanks for the explanations, I get it now; but unless I'm really tired
>> (could be), you only mention backends that do not support a concept of
>> "homepage"... right?
>
> Right.  I did not really use other backends; what drives my suggestion
> is a /need/ for a url in the titlepage, not an /existence/ of such
> feature in other tools.  (It would be hard for me to believe that I'm
> the only one needing this, btw...)
>

For latex, the ams classes (amsart, etc) provide a \urladdr macro.
I imagine something similar could be easily added to the standard
classes. Or you can cheat:

#+AUTHOR:
#+LATEX_HEADER: \author{A.U.Thor\thanks{http://www.foo.org}

-- 
Nick