Public service announcement for those writing anonymous referee reports in #Emacs #OrgMode: `(setq org-latex-hyperref-template "")` stops Org Mode from adding your name and other identifying characteristics to the exported PDF's metadata.

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

Public service announcement for those writing anonymous referee reports in #Emacs #OrgMode: `(setq org-latex-hyperref-template "")` stops Org Mode from adding your name and other identifying characteristics to the exported PDF's metadata.

[edgarchavez@mas.to]

@oantolin Happened to you?

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

@edgarchavez Fortunately not! I've always been aware that when you export from Org Mode to LaTeX you get a call to `\hypersetup` that includes your name as PDF metadata, so when I writing referee reports I would manually delete that from the LaTeX source and recompile. But the last time I wrote a report I thought to myself: "there has to be a way to get Org Mode to skip the metadata".

Also I don't think having your name just in the PDF metadata typically spoils anonymity of reviews, because popular journal software like EditFlow says it "anonymizes" the report PDF, which, I imagine, at the very least scrubs the author name from the PDF metadata.