"Every Author as First Author"
by Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine

This repository contains the source code for the following (humorous) paper:

Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine. "Every author as first author". Proceedings of SIGTBD, 2023.

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Talk slides

Abstract

We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author — superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever's name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LaTeX, BibTeX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.

Code

• namestack.tex defines the LaTeX macro \namestack for overlapping names (or any text) in a stack.
• stack-natbib.tex defines additional LaTeX macros for working with author-year bibliographies via natbib.sty, especially with the following bibliography style:
• stack-abbrvnat.bst is a BibTeX style, modifying of abbrvnat.bst to stack author names in all entries.
• stack.html demos name stacks in HTML. See the talk slides for a more thorough example.

All of the above code (but not the text itself) is distributed under an MIT License. Feel free to use them to make your own author stacks! (with proper attribution)

Building

To build the paper itself, use pdflatex and bibtex:

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