vertical alignment
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\title{A Paper}
\author{\begin{tabular}{l@{\ }l}
Advisor: "Name of Advisor"
Candidate: "My Name"
\end{tabular}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
Given in this paper ...
\end{document}
My question is how to make the two colons right after "Advisor" and "Candidate" be on the same line?
I would definitely go the second way with $\displaystyle: I find that it looks strange to have something centered after a bullet. To get the vertical alignment correct, just add [t] after \begin{aligned}, where "t" means "top". (See also the top of page 8 of the User's guide for the amsmath Package.)
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{flushleft}
\Large CptZpBrngn
\hrule
\end{flushleft}
\begin{flushright}
\small 1234 Fake St.
\end{flushright}
\end{document}
Note the rule touched the letters, you could add a blank line then \vspace{2pt} to add some space. Note that size change commands like \Large and \small do not take a {...} argument and should always include the end of the paragraph in their scope otherwise the line spacing will be incorrect.
Or version with no vertical space at all
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
{\raggedright
\Large CptZpBrngn
\hrule
\par
\raggedleft
\small 1234 Fake St.
\par}
\end{document}
Best Answer
I am not sure whether this meant at all.
Please note, that journals have their own guidelines for typesetting/alignment of the names of authors.
The
@{\ }is not useful at all, the first column is requested to be right justified, so use arcolumn specifier.