Re: author info. in two columns?

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 03:01:57AM -0500, Nirmal Govind 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...

The standard way of inserting two authors is to select the author layout and
type:

Author1 <ctrl+enter>
Address of author1
\and (in latex mode)
Author2 <ctrl+enter>
Address of author2

This won't center the names in the two column as you want.
Inserting the following code to the preamble will do that:

\def\and{%
  \end{tabular}%
  \hfill%
  \hspace*{\columnsep}
  \hfill%
  \begin{tabular}[t]{c}}
\def\@maketitle{%
  \newpage
  \null
  \vskip 2em%
  \begin{center}%
  \let \footnote \thanks
    {\LARGE \@title \par}%
    \vskip 1.5em%
    {\large
      \lineskip .5em%
      \hfill%
      \begin{tabular}[t]{c}%
        \@author
      \end{tabular}\hfill\null\par}%
    \vskip 1em%
    {\large \@date}%
  \end{center}%
  \par
  \vskip 1.5em}