Document Classes ⇒ Need Help Removing Text from an Optics Letters Templates

[Phanixis]

I am taking a lab course in which lab reports are supposed to be written in the same format as "Optics Letters." Nothing is actually going to be submitted to optics letters, its just an exercise so we will know how to write journal papers.

Optics letters host on their website a LaTex template for anyone attempting to use LaTex to write papers in the Optics Letters format. I installed this template and used it to write my paper.

Unfortunately, when I compile it, two lines of text appear in the.pdf that are not in my .tex document.

The data in which the paper is compiled appears below my name and address.

A copyright notice appears at the end of the abstract.

I definitely want to get rid of the copyright notice, as this paper is not copyrighted, I am just borrow the format.

How do I go about removing these lines of texts?

Thanks for the help.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Phanixis,

welcome to the board!
Perhaps provide a link to that template. Without it one would have to use a search engine and further would have to search the Optics Letters homepage to find a template, that doesn't need to be the one you are using.
But you could just search the text inside the template source file.

Stefan

[Phanixis]

Ok, here is the link:

http://www.photonics.umd.edu/umd/index.html

Scroll down the page until you see Optics Letters LaTex Template. It should download a file named ol.zip. That is the template I am using.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Phanixis,

you could use abstract* instead of abstract, this will prevent that notice from appearing. Or redefine the abstract environment. One could just look into OL.sty to find that text because it's open source.

Stefan