def format_authors(self, format='<STR_LIT>', deparagraph=True, mathjax=False,<EOL>smart=True, extra_args=None):
formatted_authors = []<EOL>for latex_author in self.authors:<EOL><INDENT>formatted_author = convert_lsstdoc_tex(<EOL>latex_author, format,<EOL>deparagraph=deparagraph,<EOL>mathjax=mathjax,<EOL>smart=smart,<EOL>extra_args=extra_args)<EOL>formatted_author = formatted_author.strip()<EOL>formatted_authors.append(formatted_author)<EOL><DEDENT>return formatted_authors<EOL>
Get the document authors in the specified markup format.

        Parameters
        ----------
        format : `str`, optional
            Output format (such as ``'html5'`` or ``'plain'``).
        deparagraph : `bool`, optional
            Remove the paragraph tags from single paragraph content.
        mathjax : `bool`, optional
            Allow pandoc to use MathJax math markup.
        smart : `True`, optional
            Allow pandoc to create "smart" unicode punctuation.
        extra_args : `list`, optional
            Additional command line flags to pass to Pandoc. See
            `lsstprojectmeta.pandoc.convert.convert_text`.

        Returns
        -------
        output_text : `list` of `str`
            Sequence of author names in the specified output markup format.