Options for papers with many authors? (60 in my case)

[BobbyRBruce]

I'm in the process of writing a paper using acmart which, at present, has 60 authors. The number of authors may even increase further in the coming days.

For each author I use:

\author{Bla McBla}                                                              
\orcid{0000-0000-0000-0000}                                                     
\affiliation{%                                                                  
  \institution{Bla University}                                              
}                                                                               
\email{[email protected]}   

I'm seeing that the paper doesn't render correctly with this many authors (the authors trail off the page and the rest of the rendered PDF is just a series of blank pages).

Is there any elegant way to display a large author list while still rendering the paper correctly?

[borisveytsman]

@craig-rodkin I often get the request to add option for a huge number of authors. What can we do?

[Craig-Rodkin]

Please send me the list. There is a sub group on the pubs board who are tackling this matter now

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[borisveytsman]

C> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 15:46:14 -0700 C> From: Craig-Rodkin [email protected]

C> Please send me the list. There is a sub group on the pubs board C> who are tackling this matter now

I am not sure which list you mean :)

What I have is several requests from people having papers with large number of authors (>20). They do not know how to format the papers - the standard ACM system (blocks in conferences, lines in journals) does not work right for them. I can implement any design, but pubs need to come with the design, right?

-- Good luck

-Boris

Q: Why do the police always travel in threes? A: One to do the reading, one to do the writing, and the other keeps an eye on the two intellectuals.

[powerjg]

First of all, thanks for all of your hard work, Boris! This template really is a life saver.

I'm curious as to if there's any updates on this. We're about to put a paper up on arXiv before submitting to an ACM venue with 60+ authors. Any kind of "hack" to get something working would be appreciated.

Edit: Here's a branch with the author list: https://github.com/darchr/gem5-20-paper/tree/author-list.

Currently, when we build, we see a poorly formatted author list followed by 30 blank pages (the paper is 30-ish pages long without the author).