[Tex/LaTex] Add abstract in TOC and correct link

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I am using the abstract environment to write the abstract of a report (I am using the report class)

\begin{abstract}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
lorem ...
\end{abstract}

I want to add the abstract to my table of contents. Adding the line \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract} seems to work fine (it adds the abstract in the toc) but when I click on it (I am using the package hyperref) in the TOC I am redirected to the first page of the report instead of the abstract page. Maybe I should precise that I am using the option notitlepage of the class report (I have a custom title page done with a \begin{titlepage} ... \end{titlepage} instruction).

Best Answer

As @GuM suggested it in a comment, the solution is to use \phantomsection:

\begin{abstract}
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abstract}
lorem ...
\end{abstract}

This other question was particularly useful.

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[Tex/LaTex] Add text to TOC without dotted-lines and line number

Use \addtocontents instead of \addcontentsline, and add positive and negative vertical space as appropriate. (Note: I used the thesis2 class file available here.)

\documentclass{thesis2}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\frontmatter

\chapter{Acknowledgments}

\chapter{Abstract}

\mainmatter

\addtocontents{toc}{%
 \protect\vspace{1em}% 
 \protect\noindent Chapter\protect\par
 \protect\vspace{-1em}%
}

\chapter{Introduction}

\section{Network design}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to include abstract into titlepage

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).

result

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 …

Update

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.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to include abstract into titlepage

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