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}
