Page Layout ⇒ make a title with two authors, but one institution

[jerome]

Hi!

I'm new on this forum, so first congratulations for all the work done.

I'm writing a technical paper, and in the \author section, i need to write 2 names, but 1 institution. It should look like this:

............Name 1................................Name 2
Graduate Research Assistant......Assistant Professor
................The University of ... at ...
.........................Address...

I tried to use the /and feature, but it writes the names one below the other. I also tried the \multicols command, but it gives me an error with \maketitle at compilation.

Thanks for your help,

Jerome

[localghost]

Try the authblk package from the preprint bundle.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[jerome]

Localghost, thank you for this very fast reply.

I looked into the authblk package and I read the package documentation (http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... uthblk.pdf), however, it doesn't permit to do the formatting that I would like. It allows to make:

....................................J. B. Smith
.............................Institute for Research
...............................Hamilton, Ontario

.......................C. T. Appleton and P. R. Bailey
..............................NASA, Greenbelt, MD

.............J. B. Smith1, C. T. Appleton2, and P. R. Bailey2
.................1Institute for Research, Hamilton, Ontario
..............................2NASA, Greenbelt, MD

But it doesn't really allow to have columns with different authors in the title box. I'm going to continue looking for it.
Thanks, Jerome

[gmedina]

Hi Jerome,

I would suggest you not to use \maketitle but to create your own customized title. In the next exampe I used a tabular environment to simulate the desired layout (of course, feel free to adapt may example according to your needs):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
{
\centering
\noindent\begin{tabular}{*{2}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{.45\linewidth}}}
  \multicolumn{2}{c}{\LARGE The Title}\\[10pt]
  \large The First Author & \large The Second Author\\
  Graduate Research Assistant & Assistant Professor\\[3pt]
  \multicolumn{2}{c}{The University of ... at ...}\\
  \multicolumn{2}{c}{Address}\\[3pt]
  \multicolumn{2}{c}{\today}
\end{tabular}\par
}
\end{document}
 
 
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[localghost]

If the date is not mandatory, you can use the vanilla \maketitle command and set the institution as »date«. And if necessary, you can add the date very simple as shown below.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\title{Title with two authors, but one institution}
\author{First Author\\ Graduate Resesearch Assistant \and Second Author\\ Assistant Professor}
\date{University of \ldots \\Address\\[\baselineskip] \today}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}
 
 
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But as gmedina suggested, you can create a custom title, too. Another solution would be to redefine the title command and add a structure to typeset the institution similar to title and author.

[jerome]

Hi Gmedina,

Thanks a lot for the solution. As you showed to me, I've created my own customized title and now I have exactly what I want.

Is there a button somewhere to say that the problem has been solved?

Have a nice day, Jerome.

[localghost]

[...] Is there a button somewhere to say that the problem has been solved? [...]

Unfortunately not. Just edit your initial post and just choose the green checkmark from the icon list.