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I would like to add multiple authors with their affiliations in columns in the beamer title page. I am using the metropolis theme.

It almost works, but the aligment with the first author should be with the title and the orange line. The three authors should be arranged evenly through the orange line. How can I do this? Thank you!

MWE:

\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}

\title{Title of the paper}%
\author{%
\texorpdfstring{
\begin{columns}
\column{.33\textwidth}
Author 1\\
Inst 1
\column{.33\textwidth}
Author 2\\
Inst 2
\column{.33\textwidth}
Author 3\\
Inst 3
\end{columns}
}{Authors}}%

\date{February 2023}%

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[plain]%
\titlepage%  
\end{frame}%

\end{document}

titlepage

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    You need \begin{columns}[onlytextwidth]. Actually, this makes the text area wider rather than the columns narrower, but at least they match.
    – John Kormylo
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 1:33
  • Nice and simple! Thank you. Would a wider text area make the title slide format different from the rest of the presentation? Do you want to write an answer simply with the addition of the option [onlytextwidth]?
    – Andre
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 1:47
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    onlytextwidth can also be used as a Beamer option (whole document).
    – John Kormylo
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 15:25

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This uses a one line patch (onlytextwidth).

\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}

\title{Title of the paper}%
\author{%
\texorpdfstring{
\begin{columns}[onlytextwidth]
\column{0.33\textwidth}
Author 1\\
Inst 1
\column{0.33\textwidth}
Author 2\\
Inst 2
\column{0.33\textwidth}
Author 3\\
Inst 3
\end{columns}
}{Authors}}%

\date{February 2023}%

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[plain]%
\titlepage%  
\end{frame}%

\end{document}

demo

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  • Great! Did you expected to use \tempdima for something?
    – Andre
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 15:40
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    Oops, old experiment.
    – John Kormylo
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 15:44
  • Great. I though onlytextwidth was a class option and didn't it could be used here.
    – gildux
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 19:00
  • See page 125 of the Beamer manual.
    – John Kormylo
    Commented Feb 20, 2023 at 17:07
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Why do you use own-build columns environment instead multiple native authors listing?

\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}

\title{Title of the paper}%
\author{
Author 1\inst{1}
\and
Author 2\inst{2}
\and
Author 3\inst{3}
}
\institute{
\inst{1}Inst 1
\and
\inst{2}Inst 2
\and
\inst{3}Inst 3
}
\date{February 2023}%

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[plain]%
\titlepage%  
\end{frame}%

\end{document}

I know it doesn't answer your question but authors and institutes lists are used elsewhere (think about footers and headers etc.)

if you really want to use your own columns, build your own title frame like (not tested)

\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}

\title{Title of the paper}%
\date{February 2023}%

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[plain]%
\usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par
\bigskip
\begin{columns}
\column{.33\textwidth}
Author 1\\
Inst 1
\column{.33\textwidth}
Author 2\\
Inst 2
\column{.33\textwidth}
Author 3\\
Inst 3
\end{columns}
\usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate\par
\end{frame}%

\end{document}

Finally, you may want to add some empty box in front of some names with for example ~Author A or \fbox{\phantom{foo}}Author A etc.

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  • I prefer to list the institutes just below the authors instead of adding a footnote. It looks better. Adding the empy box is a good suggestion, but I prefer to use something automatic instead of trying to calculate the necessary space.
    – Andre
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 1:40
  • I see what you mean. I think there's always a little calculation involved (e.g. .33\textwidth instead of an automatic equal distribution…) Maybe that should be done once with a first empty column then?
    – gildux
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 12:40
  • Yes. It is better to use something that applies in general instead of adding spaces for the specific situation.
    – Andre
    Commented Feb 19, 2023 at 15:42

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