Tell me more ×
TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems. It's 100% free, no registration required.

How can one redefine the spacing that the \and command puts between authors in \author within the standard article class? I have a document with three authors whose names are just too long to fit on one line with the standard spacing.

I feel like this should probably be doable with a \setlength command, but I have no idea what length to set.

For the record, I'm aware of packages like authblk (which I may ultimately use for my purposes), but am more interested in how to modify this spacing directly.

share|improve this question
add comment

1 Answer

up vote 7 down vote accepted

The definition of \and is in the LaTeX kernel:

\makeatletter
\def\and{%                  % \begin{tabular}[t]{c}
  \end{tabular}%
  \hskip 1em \@plus.17fil%
  \begin{tabular}[t]{c}}%   % \end{tabular}
\makeatother

You can redefine it in the preamble by reducing 1em to whatever fits your needs.

Note: The "missing" \begin{tabular}[t]{c} and \end{tabular} are provided by \@maketitle. So any \author part is typeset as a tabular.

share|improve this answer
 
Your answer caused a previous answer of yours to appear in the "Related" section for this question, so I've submitted an edit to this answer based on that, further clarifying how to redefine \and. –  Tim Parenti Jan 30 at 20:11
add comment

Your Answer

 
discard

By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95933/redefining-and-spacing-in-author
tex.stackexchange.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2013-48
48391
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:NTTF7KI5YDAIRIV7KDEFH4GIDDOI7GNZ
<urn:uuid:838f1756-abbe-4366-adb3-c05910f04a0f>
2013-12-09T22:53:01Z
198.252.206.16
sha1:Q4FGXU7LXYOZ2P2H54F4QIGWHYCEJ5FB
<urn:uuid:e60929ce-c2ee-4b10-a5b5-623ec9f1b20c>
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95933/redefining-and-spacing-in-author
response
<urn:uuid:3b3d179f-7705-4c0a-856d-111373ffc20f>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf