Reduce number of author entries in project to one

novelwriter/core/coretools.py

@@ -315,12 +315,12 @@ class ProjectBuilder:
         # Settings
         projName = data.get("projName", lblNewProject)
         projTitle = data.get("projTitle", lblNewProject)
-        projAuthors = data.get("projAuthors", "")
+        projAuthor = data.get("projAuthor", "")
 
         project.data.setUuid(None)
         project.data.setName(projName)
         project.data.setTitle(projTitle)
-        project.data.setAuthors(projAuthors)
+        project.data.setAuthor(projAuthor)
         project.setDefaultStatusImport()
         project._projOpened = int(time())
 
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@ class ProjectBuilder:
         novelTitle = project.data.title if project.data.title else project.data.name
 
         titlePage = f"#! {novelTitle}\n\n"
-        if project.data.authors:
-            titlePage += f">> {lblByAuthors} {project.getFormattedAuthors()} <<\n\n"
+        if project.data.author:
+            titlePage += f">> {lblByAuthors} {project.data.author} <<\n\n"
 
         aDoc = project.storage.getDocument(hTitlePage)
         aDoc.writeDocument(titlePage)

novelwriter/core/project.py

@@ -565,22 +565,6 @@ class NWProject(QObject):
             return self._lockedBy
         return None
 
-    def getFormattedAuthors(self):
-        """Return a formatted string of authors.
-        """
-        authors = self._data.authors
-        nAuth = len(authors)
-
-        result = ""
-        if nAuth == 1:
-            result = authors[0]
-        elif nAuth > 1:
-            result = "%s %s %s" % (
-                ", ".join(authors[0:-1]), self.tr("and"), authors[-1]
-            )
-
-        return result
-
     def getCurrentEditTime(self):
         """Get the total project edit time, including the time spent in
         the current session.

novelwriter/core/projectdata.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class NWProjectData:
         self._uuid = ""
         self._name = ""
         self._title = ""
-        self._authors = []
+        self._author = ""
         self._saveCount = 0
         self._autoCount = 0
         self._editTime = 0
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ class NWProjectData:
         return self._title
 
     @property
-    def authors(self):
-        return self._authors
+    def author(self):
+        return self._author
 
     @property
     def saveCount(self):
@@ -160,13 +160,6 @@ class NWProjectData:
     #  Methods
     ##
 
-    def addAuthor(self, value):
-        """Add an author to the authors list.
-        """
-        self._authors.append(simplified(str(value)))
-        self.theProject.setProjectChanged(True)
-        return
-
     def incSaveCount(self):
         """Increment the save count by one.
         """
@@ -226,20 +219,12 @@ class NWProjectData:
             self.theProject.setProjectChanged(True)
         return
 
-    def setAuthors(self, value):
-        """Set the list of authors from either a string with one author
-        per line, or a list of authors.
+    def setAuthor(self, value):
+        """Set the author value.
         """
-        self._authors = []
-        self.theProject.setProjectChanged(True)
-        if isinstance(value, str):
-            for author in value.splitlines():
-                author = simplified(author)
-                if author:
-                    self._authors.append(author)
+        if value != self._title:
+            self._author = simplified(str(value))
             self.theProject.setProjectChanged(True)
-        elif isinstance(value, list):
-            self._authors = value
         return
 
     def setSaveCount(self, value):

novelwriter/core/projectxml.py

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ class ProjectXMLReader:
             elif xItem.tag == "title":
                 projData.setTitle(xItem.text)
             elif xItem.tag == "author":
-                projData.addAuthor(xItem.text)
+                projData.setAuthor(xItem.text)
             else:
                 logger.warning("Ignored <root/project/%s> in XML", xItem.tag)
 
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ class ProjectXMLWriter:
         xProject = etree.SubElement(xRoot, "project", attrib=projAttr)
         self._packSingleValue(xProject, "name", projData.name)
         self._packSingleValue(xProject, "title", projData.title)
-        self._packListValue(xProject, "author", projData.authors)
+        self._packSingleValue(xProject, "author", projData.author)
 
         # Save Project Settings
         xSettings = etree.SubElement(xRoot, "settings")
@@ -590,14 +590,6 @@ class ProjectXMLWriter:
         xItem.text = str(value) or ""
         return
 
-    def _packListValue(self, xParent, name, data):
-        """Pack a list of values into an XML element.
-        """
-        for value in data:
-            xItem = etree.SubElement(xParent, name)
-            xItem.text = str(value) or ""
-        return
-
     def _packDictKeyValue(self, xParent, name, data):
         """Pack the entries of a dictionary into an XML element.
         """

novelwriter/core/toodt.py

@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ class ToOdt(Tokenizer):
 
         if self._headerText == "":
             theTitle = self.theProject.data.title
-            theAuth = self.theProject.getFormattedAuthors()
+            theAuth = self.theProject.data.author
             self._headerText = f"{theTitle} / {theAuth} /"
 
         # Create Roots