General ⇒ problem with title in a two-column article

[azr124]

Hi all,

I haven't find a thread that deals with problem..., apologies if it already exists.

I'm trying to produce an article with 2 columns. However, I want the title and abstract to span the whole text width, and I want the thanks footnote to appear below the first column. I want the text to follow immediately after the title. I'm attaching a pdf file that shows the look I'm shooting for.

I tried to create a separate title page, but then I get the title in a separate page from the rest of the text.

Using a minipage for the title and abstract didn't work either. I got the abstract all mixed up with the regular text.

thanks for your help!

Ale

[localghost]

You could try the paper class or the scientificpaper package. Other inspirations may come from TeX Catalogue Online [1]. There should be suitable stuff to create the desired layout.

[1] The TeX Catalogue Online, Topic Index - Science


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Juanjo]

The following code may give you some ideas:

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\documentclass[twocolumn,a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\twocolumn[%
%  Title and authors
   \begin{center}
     {\huge\sffamily Understanding European Real Exchange Rates}\\
      \vspace{2ex}
      By \textsc{Mario J. Crucini, Chris I. Telmer, and 
      Marios Zachariadis\footnotemark[1]}
   \end{center}
%  Abstract
   \begin{quotation}
      \small
      We study good-by-good deviations from the Law-of-One-Price for over 1800
      retail good and services between all European Union (EU) for the years 
      1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990. We find that for each of these years\ldots
   \end{quotation}
   \vspace{2ex}%
]

\footnotetext[1]{This paper has been written\ldots}

% Article body
\lipsum[1-10]

\end{document}

[azr124]

Thank you very much for your help JuanJo it worked perfectly !

[matjan]

This was also what I was looking for, more particularly the \twocolumn[] trick.
So far, so good.