beamerheader-footer
I am writing a beamer presentation using the CambridgeUS theme but my presentation has multiple authors and their names do not fit in the footline at the author section. I want to delete all of their names so that they do not appear at all. Also I do not want the institution name to appear either.
How can I do this?
Madrid uses infolines as the outer theme, so you can set the footline template to not include the parentheses, but to keep all the other elements as they were:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\insertshortauthor%~~\beamer@ifempty{\insertshortinstitute}{}{(\insertshortinstitute)}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
\insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\author{A.U. Thor}
\institute{The Institute}
\begin{frame}
Test
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Here's the bottom of the frame produced by my example code:
You can set the footline template to present the desired information. In the following example code I slightly modified the definition of the footline template as used in the infolines outer theme; of course, feel free to adapt the design according to your needs:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Singapore}
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
\leavevmode%
\hbox{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=2ex,center]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in
head/foot}%
\insertshortauthor\hspace{1em}\beamer@ifempty{\insertshortinstitute}{}{(\insertshortinstitute)}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=2ex,center]{title in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.333333\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=2ex,right]{date in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
\insertframenumber{} / \inserttotalframenumber\hspace*{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
\makeatother
\author[\parbox{.2\paperwidth}{\raggedleft Author One \\ Author Two}]{Author One and Author Two}
\institute{The Institute}
\title{The Title}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}
\end{document}
The output obtained:
And the footline zoomed:
Although in my answer I gave a possible solution to the "stacking the authors" issue, I forgot to mention it explicitly: you can use the optional argument of \author to format how the author(s) information will be displayed when the \insertshortauthor command is invoked (this command is used, in particular, in the footlinea template above).
Best Answer
As texenthusiast, said in the comment, the simplest thing to do is to use the optional arguments of
\authorand\institutecommands and let them be empty.The title page:
The first frame: