How to break a paragraph between double {}

Question

Document class

I use the following document class: sig-alternate.cls

The document class can be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

Problem:

I have the following code:

\conferenceinfo{Text 1 here}{Text 2 here}

and I wish the output would be:

Text 1 here
Text 2 here

Right now both text sentences align after each other.

I have tried to look at double \ and also at \newline but haven't been successful so far.

Answer 1

You need to insert a paragraph break, but the usual \par command will not work here. Rather you need to use \endgraf:

\documentclass{sig-alternate}

\begin{document}
\conferenceinfo{Text 1 here}{\endgraf Text 2 here.\endgraf More.}

\title{My title}
\author{Me}
\maketitle
\end{document}

The \conferenceinfo macro is defined in a way that does not allow paragraph breaks in its arguments; \endgraf is the replacement command available in such situations (a relic from plain TeX).

Answer 2

This seems to work flawlessly:

\documentclass{sig-alternate}
\usepackage{lipsum} % just for the example

\begin{document}
\conferenceinfo{Text 1 here}{\\ Text 2 here.}

\title{My title}
\author{Me}
\maketitle

\section{A}
\lipsum[1-20]

\end{document}

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