abstractpositioningtitles
I compile my code and the abstract shows up before the titlepage, but I want it after the title page.
\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{report}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\geometry{letterpaper}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\title{Thesis}
\author{by Me}
\date{April 15th, 2013}
\begin{document}
\begin{abstract}
stuff and nonsense
\end{abstract}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
You could misuse the \publishers element:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,abstracton,titlepage]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\titlehead{University}
\title{Title}
\subject{Subject}
\author{Author}
\publishers{%
\normalfont\normalsize%
\parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
}
}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
Since it’s value normally is centered an in \Large you have to put in it a \parbox of the desired width and set the font back to \normalsize (the \normalfont is a little superfluous here but does no harm at all).
If this doesn’t fits your needs on can redefine {abstract} and \maketitle to let the first collect and store it’s contest and the latter print out the content. But this would be an equal effort as making the title page manually. And only gainful if you need this in more than one or two documents …
How to misuse the \date field to make the abstract appear higher on the page?
\date{%
\today% thats the default I guess
\\[2\baselineskip]% Space between date and abstract
\normalfont\normalsize%
\parbox{0.8\linewidth}{%
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
Your abstarct Text. Your abstarct Text.
}
}
There’s only the little problem that the argument of \date can‘t contain paragraphs (i.e. blank lines or \par) so we must use \\[<dim>] to get a new line an insert some space.
The simplest way is
\usepackage{abstract}
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{} % clear the title
\renewcommand{\absnamepos}{empty} % originally center
The title is stored in \abstractname, so we clear it; but abstract puts the title between \begin{center} and \end{center}, but actually center is stored in the macro \absnamepos; so we abuse LaTeX features and place the (empty) title in the (inexistent) empty environment so the result is that nothing will be printed and no excess space will be set.
Best Answer
The following code seems to work well.
\begin{document}should be before the title.