Page Layout ⇒ modify maketitle with authblk

[Ant0in8]

Hi! I am trying to modify maketitle using the package authblk. But it doesn't work until now, and I cannot manage to find the reason(s). Thanks in advance for your help.

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\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\usepackage{hyperref} 
\usepackage{authblk}

\newcommand{\address}[1]{\newcommand{\@address}{#1}}
\newcommand{\institute}[1]{\newcommand{\@institute}{#1}}

\renewcommand{\maketitle}{
 {\LARGE\noindent\ignorespaces\@title\par}
 {\Large\noindent\ignorespaces\@author\par}
 {\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@affil\par}
 {\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@institute\par} 
 {\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@address\par}
 {\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@date\par}
}

\begin{document}
\title{Draft in progress}
\author[a]{authorA}
\author[b]{authorB}
\affil[a]{\href{mailto:authorA@email.com}{authorA@email.com}}
\affil[b]{\href{mailto:authorB@email.com}{authorB@email.com}}
\institute{University}
\address{earth}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
(blablabla)
\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

\affil takes two arguments and the definition behind is much more complicated than for author or title of the standard article class. Package authblk takes all the author and affiliation information, packs it together and def's \@author.

Simply try the following:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{authblk}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\address}[1]{\newcommand{\@address}{#1}}
\newcommand{\institute}[1]{\newcommand{\@institute}{#1}}

\renewcommand{\maketitle}{
	{\LARGE\noindent\ignorespaces\@title\par}
	{\Large\noindent\ignorespaces\@author\par}
%	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@affil\par}
	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@institute\par}
	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@address\par}
	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@date\par}
}
\makeatother

\renewcommand{\Affilfont}{\normalsize}
\usepackage{hyperref}%usually loaded last
\begin{document}
\title{Draft in progress}
\author[a]{authorA}
\author[b]{authorB}
\affil[a]{\href{mailto:authorA@email.com}{authorA@email.com}}
\affil[b]{\href{mailto:authorB@email.com}{authorB@email.com}}
\institute{University}
\address{earth}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
(blablabla)
\end{document}

[Ant0in8]

thanks, it works! I have an other question, if I want that the affils appear after institute, how should I do? I tried the very naive thing to just write the two \affil after \institute, but it doesn't work. thank you in advance.

[Johannes_B]

As said before, the author and affil information are packed together in \@author. You would need patch the original authblk commands. But look at the file, it is a mess.

If the package is actively maintained, you could ask for some feature request. But since institute isn't a native command ...

[Ant0in8]

ok, thanks a lot for your help!

[Johannes_B]

You can do something like the following, but to be quite honest, i don't know why you are using authblk. If you would be a bit more verbose about your goals, we could find another solution.

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\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\usepackage{authblk}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\address}[1]{\newcommand{\@address}{#1}}
\newcommand{\institute}[1]{\newcommand{\@institute}{#1}}

\renewcommand{\maketitle}{
	{\LARGE\noindent\ignorespaces\@title\par}
	{\Large\noindent\ignorespaces\@author\par}
%	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@affil\par}
	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@institute\par}
	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@address\par}
	{\normalsize\noindent\ignorespaces\@date\par}
}
\newcommand\institutefont{\normalsize}

\renewcommand{\Affilfont}{\normalsize}
\renewcommand\@author{\ifx\AB@affillist\AB@empty\AB@author\else
      \ifnum\value{affil}>\value{Maxaffil}\def\rlap##1{##1}%
      \AB@authlist\\{\institutefont\@institute}\\[\affilsep]\AB@affillist
    \else  \AB@authors\fi\fi}
\makeatother
\usepackage{hyperref}%usually loaded last
\begin{document}
\title{Draft in progress}
\author[a]{authorA}
\author[b]{authorB}
\affil[a]{\href{mailto:authorA@email.com}{authorA@email.com}}
\affil[b]{\href{mailto:authorB@email.com}{authorB@email.com}}
\institute{University}
\address{earth}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
(blablabla)
\end{document}