Where to put affiliation information?

[Rick Muller]

I'd like to include my affiliation in the documents I write using tufte-latex. I see in the sample handout that one can use the \thanks command in the title field, but neither \thanks nor \sidenote works in the author field, and just including my contact information in the author field looks clumsy. I'd like to have something that looks just like \thanks does in tufte-latex, i.e. it puts the information as a sidenote. Any clues to what to do?

[Kevin Godby]

Hello, Rick.

Using \thanks inside of \author should work fine with tufte-handout.
I've attached an example .tex file (and the resulting PDF) that
demonstrates this.

Are you getting an error message or is the \thanks information simply
not typeset?

Note that if you're using tufte-book, you'll need to redesign the
title page to show the \thanks contents as the default title page
doesn't show it.

—Kevin Godby

[Rick Muller]

Kevin,

Thanks for the quick response. You have the title/author information after the \begin{document} line? I thought this was illegal. Am I using an outdated version of tufte-latex? I get an error on my version ("LaTeX Error: Can only be used in preamble").

When I have the \author in the preamble and try to use \thanks, I get "Argument of \optparams@@ has an extra }.

[Kevin Godby]

Hello, Rick.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Rick Muller <rpmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response. You have the title/author information after
> the \begin{document} line? I thought this was illegal. Am I using an
> outdated version of tufte-latex? I get an error on my version ("LaTeX Error:
> Can only be used in preamble").

You can use \title and \author in the preamble or after \begin{document}.

There used to be a bug in Tufte-LaTeX that prevented you from using
\title and \author after \begin{document} but it's been fixed for a
while. You might download the tufte-common.def, tufte-book.cls, and
tufte-handout.cls files from the git repository at
<https://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/source/browse/> and see if the
error persists.

> When I have the \author in the preamble and try to use \thanks, I get
> "Argument of \optparams@@ has an extra }.

Hmm.. I tried \author in the preamble (see attached) and didn't get
that error. Does the attached document compile successfully or give
you the same error? Can you send me the preamble of your document with
the \author and \title as you have them? I'll test it here.

Thanks!

—Kevin

[Rick Muller]

Worked with the git version. Thanks!!