[Tex/LaTex] Align the author names in Handout of Beamer by Tabular environment

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Consider the following framework:

\documentclass[9pt,handout]{beamer}

\title[]{Title}
\author[]{
 Author 1: "name of author 1"\\
 Author 2: "name of author 2"}
 \institute[]{}
 \date[]{}

 \begin{document}
 \begin{frame}
 \titlepage
 \end{frame}


 \end{document}

The problem is I would like to align the author names such that the two colon marks lie on the same line. I have tried this:

 \author{%
 \begin{tabular}{rl}
 Author 1:& "name of author 1" \tabularnewline
 Author 2:& "name of author 2"
 \end{tabular}}

which I know by asking another question here and which works exactly as I want in the Article documentclass. However, it does not work in Handout of Beamer.

Best Answer

Simply put it inside the document and not in the preamble and it will work.

MWE:

\documentclass[9pt,handout]{beamer}


\begin{document}

\title[]{Title}
 \author{%
 \begin{tabular}{rl}
 Author 1:& "name of author 1" \tabularnewline
 Author 2:& "name of author 2"
 \end{tabular}}
 \institute[]{}
 \date[]{}

 \begin{frame}
 \titlepage
 \end{frame}

\end{document}

Output:

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If you want to keep that code in the preamble, you can use \AtBeginDocument in this way

\documentclass[9pt,handout]{beamer}

\AtBeginDocument{%
\title[]{Title}
 \author{%
 \begin{tabular}{rl}
 Author 1:& "name of author 1" \tabularnewline
 Author 2:& "name of author 2"
 \end{tabular}}
 \institute[]{}
 \date[]{}
}

\begin{document}

 \begin{frame}
 \titlepage
 \end{frame}

\end{document}
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