EDITED:11-23-2010 In case anyone stumbles upon this question and has a similar problem. The Ubuntu/Debian repositories have an old version of revtex that exhibit this bug. Until the repos are updated, there is a .deb file available in the bug report that installs the new version of revtex
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I'm Trying to get multiple affiliations for the author list when using revtex-4.1
The default behavior is to group the authors together according to affiliation as so:
However, this requires you to group authors together in an unnatural way, and usually in a way that conflicts with authorship politics. Even if you switch to superscriptaddress mode, the requirement on grouping still remains.
For example, If I want to have two authors share an affiliation, but have one of the authors have a second affiliation, the whole thing ends up ignoring the first affiliation of the second author: e.g.
\author{J. T. Ripper}
\affiliation{Bethlem Royal Psychiatric Hospital}
\author{Bugs Bunny}
\affiliation{Looney Tunes}
\author{Daffy Duck}
\affiliation{Looney Tunes}
\affiliation{Warner Brothers}
Gives you the following
If you try to remove bug's affiliation then they both end up inheriting both affiliations. Like so:
\author{J. T. Ripper}
\affiliation{Bethlem Royal Psychiatric Hospital}
\author{Bugs Bunny}
\author{Daffy Duck}
\affiliation{Looney Tunes}
\affiliation{Warner Brothers}
What I want it to do is to give Daffy two superscripts, and Bugs bunny only one. The picture gets even harrier if (for example) I try to put J Ripper in between bugs and daffy. Then the numbers get even more screwed up. Using alt affiliations doesn't solve the problem because the alt affilliation goes into a footnote.
There used to be a "feature" in revtex-4, that if you used \address
instead of \affiliation
, then the whole thing behaves as expected. However, it seems that the latest version of revtex4-1, has patched this "bug", and now even old documents that worked fine, have broken affiliations. e.g.:
With Revtex 4:
With Revtex 4-1:
Ignore the style differences (the first one was typeset by arxiv with a prl instead of an api style).The latex behind the two is identical. Full Disclosure: I'm one of the twenty co-authors