Improve article 2104.09864

[dginev]

Exact location of issue

Frontmatter author block is not separated out correctly.

Problem details

Studying the source, the issue is the custom use of \And via an attached arxiv.sty dependency. In the pdflatex flow, the definition of \And is localized in arxiv.sty as part of the custom \@maketitle internals. The \@maketitle redefinition is currently unused/ignored by latexml.

Instead, what currently happens during latexml conversion, is that the visible \And definition comes from amsmath.sty.ltxml, which deposits the & character. As all author frontmatter is actually deposited in a single long \author{} macro call, no further chunking is performed.

Here is a sample anonymized document that reproduces that exactly:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\makeatletter
% rules for title box at top of first page
\newcommand{\@toptitlebar}{
  \hrule height 2\p@
  \vskip 0.25in
  \vskip -\parskip%
}
\newcommand{\@bottomtitlebar}{
  \vskip 0.29in
  \vskip -\parskip
  \hrule height 2\p@
  \vskip 0.09in%
}
\newcommand{\undertitle}{A Preprint}
% create title (includes both anonymized and non-anonymized versions)
\providecommand{\@maketitle}{}
\renewcommand{\@maketitle}{%
  \vbox{%
    \hsize\textwidth
    \linewidth\hsize
    \vskip 0.1in
    \@toptitlebar
    \centering
    {\LARGE\sc \@title\par}
    \@bottomtitlebar
    \textsc{\undertitle}\\
    \vskip 0.1in
    \def\And{%
      \end{tabular}\hfil\linebreak[0]\hfil%
      \begin{tabular}[t]{c}\bf\rule{\z@}{24\p@}\ignorespaces%
    }
    \def\AND{%
      \end{tabular}\hfil\linebreak[4]\hfil%
      \begin{tabular}[t]{c}\bf\rule{\z@}{24\p@}\ignorespaces%
    }
    \begin{tabular}[t]{c}\bf\rule{\z@}{24\p@}\@author\end{tabular}%
  \vskip 0.4in \@minus 0.1in \center{\@date}   \vskip 0.2in
  }
}
\makeatother


\title{Unchunked frontmatter example}
\author{
	First Name \\
	Affiliation Name\\
	Location \\
	\texttt{email@example.com} \\
	%% examples of more authors
	\And
	Second Name \\
	Affiliation Name\\
	Location \\
	\texttt{email@example.com} \\
	\And
	Third Name \\
	Affiliation Name\\
	Location \\
	\texttt{email@example.com} \\
	\And
	Fourth Name \\
	Affiliation Name\\
	Location \\
	\texttt{email@example.com} \\
	\And
	Sixth Name \\
	Affiliation Name\\
	Location \\
	\texttt{email@example.com} \\
	\And
	Seventh Name \\
	Affiliation Name\\
	Location \\
	\texttt{email@example.com} \\
}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

I suspect we'd need much more faithful emulation of \@maketitle internals to get nicely structured HTML here. But naturally not full emulation, as we don't want to reproduce the {tabular} layout.