Document Classes ⇒ revtex / affiliations

[santino]

I am in the process of creating a paper for phys. rev. b and I have a problem with the author layout. In essence, I cannot get the order of the authors to match the given affiliation.

I am using TeX Live 2009/Debian on Ubuntu 10.04 with the following commands:

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\documentclass[aps,prb,superscriptaddress,twocolumn,showpacs]{revtex4-1}
\author{Author1}
\affiliation{aff1}
\author{Author2}
\affiliation{aff2}
\author{Author3}
\affiliation{aff1}
\author{Author4}
\affiliation{aff1}

The order of the authors is essential, I cannot change this according to how revtex wants to group authors. The output I get is:

Author1,^1 Author2,^2 Author3,^2 and Author4^2
^1 aff1
^2 aff2

As you can see Author 3 and 4 have the wrong affiliation, they should be with aff1.

Help? Thank you in advance.

[localghost]

Somehow I can't comprehend the problem on my system². Authors and their assigned affiliations appear correctly in the title.

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\listfiles
\documentclass[%
  11pt,
  aps,
  prb,
  superscriptaddress,
  twocolumn,
  showpacs
]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \title{ReV\TeX\ document with multiple authors and affiliations}
  \author{Author1}
  \affiliation{Affiliation1}
  \author{Author2}
  \affiliation{Affiliation2}
  \author{Author3}
  \affiliation{Affiliation1}
  \author{Author4}
  \affiliation{Affiliation1}

  \begin{abstract}
    \blindtext
  \end{abstract}

  \maketitle
\end{document}

Perhaps a matter of an outdated document class. Add the \listfiles command as very first line to your code and search the log file for the list of used files.

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*File List*
revtex4-1.cls    2010/02/25/18:00:00 4.1p (http://publish.aps.org/revtex4/ for documentation)
  aps4-1.rtx
aps11pt4-1.rtx
textcase.sty    2004/10/07 v0.07 Text only upper/lower case changing (DPC)
     url.sty    2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
  natbib.sty    2009/11/07 8.31a (PWD, AO)
revsymb4-1.sty    2010/02/25/18:00:00 4.1p (http://publish.aps.org/revtex4/ for documentation)
 fontenc.sty
   t1enc.def    2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
inputenc.sty    2008/03/30 v1.1d Input encoding file
    utf8.def    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
   t1enc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
  ot1enc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
  omsenc.dfu    2008/04/05 v1.1m UTF-8 support for inputenc
   babel.sty    2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
 english.ldf    2005/03/30 v3.3o English support from the babel system
blindtext.sty    2009/12/29 V1.9c blindtext-Package
  xspace.sty    2006/05/08 v1.12 Space after command names (DPC,MH)
 ***********

Thorsten

[santino]

Thanks Thorsten:
Here is a list of the files that I am using:

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*File List*
revtex4-1.cls    2009/10/08:11:23 4.1g (http://publish.aps.org/revtex4/ for doc
umentation)
  aps4-1.rtx
aps10pt4-1.rtx
textcase.sty    2004/10/07 v0.07 Text only upper/lower case changing (DPC)
     url.sty    2006/04/12  ver 3.3  Verb mode for urls, etc.
  natbib.sty    2009/07/16 8.31 (PWD, AO)
revsymb4-1.sty    2009/10/08:11:23 4.1g (http://publish.aps.org/revtex4/ for do
cumentation)
 amsmath.sty    2000/07/18 v2.13 AMS math features
 amstext.sty    2000/06/29 v2.01
  amsgen.sty    1999/11/30 v2.0
  amsbsy.sty    1999/11/29 v1.2d
  amsopn.sty    1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names
  amsthm.sty    2004/08/06 v2.20
 amssymb.sty    2009/06/22 v3.00
amsfonts.sty    2009/06/22 v3.00 Basic AMSFonts support
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty    2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2009/08/28 v1.8 graphics configuration of TeX Live
   dvips.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
pstricks.sty    2008/11/26 v0.40 LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
pstricks.tex    2009/05/19 v1.29 `PSTricks' (tvz,hv)
  xcolor.sty    2007/01/21 v2.11 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
   color.cfg    2007/01/18 v1.5 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
dvipsnam.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
pst-grad.sty    2004/07/15 package wrapper for pst-grad.tex (hv)
pst-grad.tex    2006/11/27 1.06 `pst-grad' (tvz)
pst-xkey.tex    2005/11/25 v1.6 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval (HA)
 xkeyval.sty    2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
 xkeyval.tex    2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
pst-plot.sty    2004/07/15 package wrapper for pst-plot.tex
pst-plot.tex    2009/06/08 1.04 `pst-plot' (tvz)
    umsa.fd    2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols A
    umsb.fd    2009/06/22 v3.00 AMS symbols B
  omscmr.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
    fig1.eps    Graphic file (type eps)
    fig2.eps    Graphic file (type eps)
    fig3.eps    Graphic file (type eps)
    fig4.eps    Graphic file (type eps)
    fig5.eps    Graphic file (type eps)
    fig6.eps    Graphic file (type eps)
 ***********

[santino]

The problem is now solved... after looking closely through the list files, it was primarily my natbib.sty package that was out of date. I did not notice the problem for some time because other publications of mine did not require such an author order and revtex4-1 was working with natbib 8.31.

In all I updated: revtex4-1.cls, natbib.sty and revsymb4-1.sty... not sure if anything else needs an update... but the wheels are well greased at the moment.

For any interested parties:
You can get an updated version of these files through:
https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/
and
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... ib/natbib/

cheers

[dottorbartolo]

Hi there,

I have tried to update those files, but no success at the moment. My version of latex is the one from Synaptics, with all the possible texlive packages (texlive-publishers seems the one relevant to this discussion).

1. I looked for the natbib.sty on the system. In my case is in the dir: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/natbib/ (the other two files revsymb4-1.sty and revtex4-1.cls are in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/revtex/).
2. I downloaded natbib.sty and overwritten the old one in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/natbib/, but my paper was still showing the same error in the affiliations.
3. Then, I tried to re-install revtex4-1 from https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/. Just to make things clean enough, I have completely unistalled first the package texlive-publishers with synaptic.
4. After unpacking the first zip file, the README file suggests to install revtex in a different dir:

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   unzip revtex4-1-tds.zip -d /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/

   I do that, I run the second command:

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   mktexlsr /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

   but now my tex file doesn't even find revtex4-1.cls
   Am I doing some obvious mistake here?

Can anybody help please?

Cheers.

[santino]

Hi:

Not really sure what problems you are running into... all I did was simply replace the three files mentioned in the previous post... the only other thing I can think of is you need to run the command 'texhash' from your main directory. This command has the effect of updated the latex directory so that it recognizes the new files.

I hope that helps.

Ciao
Santino

[dottorbartolo]

I have run texhash after substituting the 3 files, but no luck!
Cheers

[dottorbartolo]

Aha, now it works!
I had been fooled by acroread who had stopped refreshing the file without telling me!
Many thanks.

[santino]

...we are all subjugated to the whimsical nature of adobe.

Glad to hear it worked...

Cheers