[Tex/LaTex] How to make a short running author list

amsarttitles

I am writing a paper (using the amsart class) where we have four authors. The problem is that the author names on the even pages spill over onto the page numbers and obscure them. What I'd like to do is to define a short running author list (where, say, given names could be replaced by initials) and have it placed on top of the even pages.

But how does one do that within amsart?

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It should just work to write

\author[short name]{long name}

for each author in the preamble.

For example:

\documentclass{amsart}
\title{Of Cabbages and Kings}
\author[Y.X.H.A.E.A.W.K. Conley]{Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles Conley}
\address{New York University}
\author[N.I. Lobachevski]{Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevski}
\address{Kazan University}
\author[J.J.J. Schmidt]{John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt}
\address{Hisnameismyname U.}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just for dummy text

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\lipsum[1-100]

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Author affiliations and date formatting

Here is a simple method to achieve this. We need to do the following:

Empty the macros \@setdate which prints the date in the title page.
Add a newly created macro (viz \@Setdate) to \enddoc@text which prints the affiliation at the end of the document.
Set the font style of affiliation to italic and font size to 8pt in the \@setaddresses macro which puts affiliation, current address and email at the end of the document using \enddoc@text hook.

These hacks are now added between \makeatletter and \makeatother in the sample amsart template given below:

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Beginning of amsart.template
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
%
%     AMS-LaTeX v.2 template for use with amsart
%
%     Remove any commented or uncommented macros you do not use.

\documentclass{amsart}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma}

\theoremstyle{definition}
\newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{Definition}
\newtheorem{example}[theorem]{Example}
\newtheorem{xca}[theorem]{Exercise}

\theoremstyle{remark}
\newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark}

\numberwithin{equation}{section}

\makeatletter
\let\@setdate\@empty
\def\date#1{\gdef\@Date{#1}}\let\@Date\@empty
\def\@Setdate{\datename\ \@Date\@addpunct.}
\def\enddoc@text{\ifx\@empty\@Setdate \else\par\addvspace\bigskipamount\indent%
  {\footnotesize\@Setdate}\fi
  \ifx\@empty\@translators \else\@settranslators\fi
  \ifx\@empty\addresses \else\@setaddresses\fi}
\def\@setaddresses{\par
  \nobreak \begingroup
\footnotesize
  \def\author##1{\nobreak\addvspace\bigskipamount}%
  \def\\{\unskip, \ignorespaces}%
  \interlinepenalty\@M
  \def\address##1##2{\begingroup
    \par\addvspace\bigskipamount\indent
    \@ifnotempty{##1}{(\ignorespaces##1\unskip) }%
    {\fontsize{8}{10}\selectfont\itshape\ignorespaces##2}\par\endgroup}%
  \def\curraddr##1##2{\begingroup
    \@ifnotempty{##2}{\nobreak\indent\curraddrname
      \@ifnotempty{##1}{, \ignorespaces##1\unskip}\/:\space
      ##2\par}\endgroup}%
  \def\email##1##2{\begingroup
    \@ifnotempty{##2}{\nobreak\indent\emailaddrname
      \@ifnotempty{##1}{, \ignorespaces##1\unskip}\/:\space
      \ttfamily##2\par}\endgroup}%
  \def\urladdr##1##2{\begingroup
    \def~{\char`\~}%
    \@ifnotempty{##2}{\nobreak\indent\urladdrname
      \@ifnotempty{##1}{, \ignorespaces##1\unskip}\/:\space
      \ttfamily##2\par}\endgroup}%
  \addresses
  \endgroup
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\title{Sample title}

%    Remove any unused author tags.

%    author one information
\author{First Name}
\address{Sample, Affiliation}
\curraddr{Current, Address}
\email{someone@somewhere.com}
\thanks{Sample template downloaded from ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/amslatex/classes/amsart.template.}

%    author two information
\author{Second Author}
\address{Second, Affiliation}
\curraddr{Address, Second}
\email{anybody@somewhere.com}
\thanks{This is the second author}

\subjclass[2000]{Primary 0000, 1111}
%    For articles to be published after 1 January 2010, you may use
%    the following version:
%\subjclass[2010]{Primary }

\keywords{template, amsart}

\date{24 July 2013}

\dedicatory{Blah blah blah.}

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[4]
\end{abstract}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\lipsum

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{1} First reference.

\bibitem{2} Second reference.

\end{thebibliography}



\end{document}

%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% End of amsart.template
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Hope this helps.

[Tex/LaTex] author not appearing in \maketitle in amsart

the way author information is handled by amsart is quite different from how it is handled by article, and the authblk package is based on the article conventions. this difference is what is causing the author information to be omitted.

if you really need the authors presented as they are in article (modified by authblk), then amsart is not going to work for you.

if you are willing to accept the amsart presentation, then you will also need to change \affil to \address or \curraddr. also, the facilities of amsthm are built into amsart, and amsmath and amsfonts are automatically loaded, so it's not necessary to specify those three packages with \usepackage.

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