Page Layout ⇒ Aligned Author Affiliation

[NELLLY]

Hi,

I used the following code to generate the affiliations of the authors.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{authblk}

\date{}
\title{PAPER TITLE}
\author[1]{FIRST AUTHOR}
\author[2]{SECOND AUTHOR}
\affil[1]{address university laboratory address xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.}
\affil[2]{YYYYYYYYYYYY}
\renewcommand\Authands{ and }

\begin{document}
  \maketitle

  abstract
\end{document}

I need the affiliation of the first author doesn't exceed one line and the two affiliations aligned i.e. in this way.

¹ Address of the first author
² Address of the second author.

[ghuczek]

You can reduce the font size to 10 or 11 points if the affiliation is long. If it is still too long, it will have to wrap to the next line.

The second alignment issue is due to centering. The affiliations will not left align because they are different lengths and centred. It looks better centred on the title page. Do you have a specific reason not to leave it centred?

If you must left align the affiliations, it's possible to pad the shorter line by adding tildes. Perhaos thee is a more elegant solution, but this will work. I couldn't find anything else it the package documentation that will allow left aligning instead of centring.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{authblk}

%\date{}
\title{PAPER TITLE}
\author[1]{FIRST AUTHOR}
\author[2]{SECOND AUTHOR}
\affil[1]{address university laboratory address xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.}
\affil[2]{second shorter address~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~}
%\renewcommand\Authands{ and }

\begin{document}
\maketitle

abstract
\end{document}

[benkay86]

Sorry to revive an old question, but here's another option if anyone else is looking for this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{authblk}
\title{This is some thing}
\author[1]{John Smith}
\affil[1]{Department at a nice university}
\affil[2]{And another department}

% Here is the hack to get left-aligned affiliations only
\usepackage{setspace}
\makeatletter
\let\oldaffillist\AB@affillist
\renewcommand{\AB@affillist}{\begin{flushleft}\begin{spacing}{1.5}\oldaffillist\end{spacing}\end{flushleft}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}