[Tex/LaTex] IEEE Tran LaTeX Template: Affiliation Block Layout

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I want to use the IEEE tran LaTeX class for one of my conference papers. Three different institutions need to be affiliated and I'm trying now to design the header in a more attractive and functional fashion like it is shown in figure 2. As far as I know, the only design element that is provided is the \and command in order to influence the layout. This does not lead to a satisfying result, though, because the affiliation blocks are not aligned properly.

At the moment all insitutions are positioned in one column one after the other which chews up a lot of space, leaving a large unused area at the right side of the header page.
Do you have any suggestions/ experience to share?

Thank you in advance!

Desired Layout

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What I eventually did was using the IEEE tran template with the following code. Looks clean and saves space.

\author{
\IEEEauthorblockN{{\bf John Doe}\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}\IEEEauthorrefmark{3}\\ \tt\footnotesize john@domain.com} \and
\IEEEauthorblockN{{\bf Jane Doe}\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}\\ \tt\footnotesize jane@domain.com}
\and
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}Affiliate 1, Adress ...}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}Affiliate 2, Adress ...}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{3}Affiliate 3, Adress ...}
}

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I found the solution. This is how it's done:

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\author{
    \IEEEauthorblockN{Author1\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}, Author2\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}, Author3\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}, Author4\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}}
    \IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}Institution1
    \\\{1, 4\}@abc.com}
    \IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{2}Institution2
    \\\{2, 3\}@def.com}
}
\title{A title}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] IEEE tran one column, two column elements in the same page possible

A minimal working example:

MWE

\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{The title}
\author{You}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[
\begin{@twocolumnfalse}
\maketitle
\end{@twocolumnfalse}
\begin{abstract}
~{\lipsum[1]\lipsum[1]}
\end{abstract}
\bigskip]
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-7]
\end{document}

Note: For some reason \lipsum[1] inside the abstract environment must be enclosed with brackets and must be at least one character before (it can be be ~, but no a normal space), but nothing of this is needed for real text.

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