R Markdown: Must the author's name be italic?

Question

I have found that when I use R Markdown, the author's name is in italic.

Just like this:

Can I set it in roman?

The reason I ask these question because I am Chinese. If I write my name in Chinese and in italic type, it can be a little bit ugly...

So what can I do now?

Answer 1

Actually it's easier if you use \emph{} in author as:

author: \emph{Some Name}

This will reverse the italic and make it roman provided the fact you are building a pdf with Latex.

Hope this helped!

Answer 2

You can add CSS to change if your output is html or edit the pandoc template for LaTeX.

Default Template

With CSS in your YAML for html output

    author: <h4 style="font-style:normal">Author Name</h4>