Thanks! That fixed it.

And it would be wonderful if there was official documentation somewhere 
(that google can find) so that the next person doesn't take as long as I 
did to find something that works....

On Friday, September 9, 2022 at 10:58:42 PM UTC-4 fiddlosopher wrote:

> I suspect you're running into this issue:
>
> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8256
>
> We should probably fix this in the docx writer. but try this;
>
> author: |-
> Author One^1^\
> Author Two^2^
>
>
> > On Sep 9, 2022, at 6:06 PM, Kevin Coombes <kevin.r...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am writing a document in Rmarkdown (so for practical purposes here, 
> just in markdown) that I would like to be able to convert to all of HTML, 
> PDF, and Word (docx). The document has multiple authors with different 
> affiliations. Since I haven't been able to coerce any of the online 
> descriptions of how to mark this setting up formally to work in all three 
> output environments, I tried manually creating the output I wanted by 
> hacking the "date" metadata and exploiting hand-written superscripts. 
> Basically, something like this:
> > 
> > author: |
> > | Author One^1^
> > | Author Two^2^
> > date: |
> > | ^1^Institution One
> > | ^2^Institution Two
> > 
> > Of course, this is a simplified example since there are way more authors 
> and institutions than that, which is why I am using the pipe character to 
> force line breaks. This idea works for both HTML and PDF output. When I try 
> to create the output in a .docx file, neither the Author list nor the 
> Affiliation list (in the hacked ate variable) gets included in the 
> document. If I delete the pipe characters, then the output gets included in 
> the file, but without the line breaks.
> > 
> > Why does the YAML pipe character apparently not work for Word output? Is 
> there some setting that I am missing to enable this feature for Word output?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> > 
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