On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:01, you wrote: > Hi.. I'm trying to get the information on the authors in a two column > format for a (two column) paper... there are two authors and the format > specified by the conference says that the first author info should be > center aligned in the first column and similarly the second author > in the second column.. how can this be done? I tried tables but can't > get the spacing right...
This is how I fixed a similar problem: Set document layout to _one_ column (Layout -> Document -> Document-tab: Page_cols: One). Put in preample (Layout -> Latex_preamble): \usepackage{multicol} Set up a 2-column section for authors: ERT before Authors (ctr-l): \begin{multicols}{2} ERT after Authors: \end{multicols} Do not use Authors style. Enter author's details in Standard style, set to centre aligned (Layout -> Paragraph). Format style manually (Layout -> Character). Use one paragraph per author, with protected newlines within each if needed (ctrl-<enter>, e.g., to put author and their address on separate lines). When using 'Authors' paragraph style, centre alignment does not work (at least it hasn't worked for me). Limitations: the two paragraphs for the two authors should have the same number of lines, otherwise one of your paragraphs will be split btw. the 2 cols. Solution: put dummy lines in the shorter paragraph, using protected newlines and spaces (ctrl-<enter> followed by ctrl-<space>). Then, set up a separate 2-column section for the rest of the text ERT before rest of text (usually the abstract): \begin{multicols}{2} ERT at the very last line of your lyx document: \end{multicols} I used this for a two-column paper with three authors that had to be entered in 3 centre-aligned columns. If the authors all have the same affiliation, you may want to put that info between the first \end{multicols} and second \begin{multicols}{2}. Hope this helps. Steve -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University VIC 3800 Australia Tel: INT +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: INT +61 3 9905 3637