[Tex/LaTex] Change space between abstract title and abstract body

abstractspacing

How do I change the spacing between the abstract title/name and the abstract body/text?

\documentclass{article}
\author{\normalsize Author}
\title{Title}
\date{\normalsize \today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}\normalsize Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec id nibh nec ipsum sagittis venenatis. Vivamus mollis pulvinar justo. Phasellus vel ligula eget elit blandit mattis a vel mi. Maecenas luctus lobortis accumsan. Integer vel ultrices urna. Ut sit amet lorem luctus purus fringilla sollicitudin. Sed ante mi, aliquam eget nulla eget, ultricies rutrum orci. In libero sapien, lacinia eu erat quis, gravida sollicitudin orci. Morbi eu fermentum magna. Duis vel metus condimentum purus feugiat interdum tincidunt ut tortor. Etiam volutpat dapibus mattis. 
\end{abstract}
\end{document}

Best Answer

\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Abstract\vspace{0.2\textheight}}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to change the distance between abstract and section 1

You could just insert a \bigskip between the abstract and your first section. If this is not enough, add some more \bigskips. One \bigskip is "worth" 12pt by default (plus/minus some stretch/shrink). If you want less space, issuing a \medskip is 1/2 a \bigskip at 6pt by default (plus/minus some stretch/shrink). And then there's \smallskip which is 1/2 a \medskip at 3pt by default (plus/minus some stretch/shrink).

Alternatively, issuing a \vspace{<len>} (with an optional *) should also do the trick, where <len> is some TeX length (like 1cm, say). More information on the \vspace command is available on TeXBlog.

The above additions to your code is manual, and therefore viable as a one-time use. However, it is also possible to (say) patch the abstract environment to automatically append a larger skip once it's done.

Edit: I assume your twocolumn document configuration stems from: How can I place a one-column-abstract in a two-column document? In this case the use of \vspace does not provide any effective solution (nor does \...skip which is defined in terms of \vspace). I would suggest using the multicols environment provided by the multicol package, and use in your document in the following way:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage{multicol}% http://ctan.org/pkg/multicol
\begin{document}

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\vspace{2cm}% Additional space between abstract & rest of document

\begin{multicols}{2}
\section{First section}
\lipsum[2-4]
\section{Second section}
\lipsum[5-7]
\section{Last section}
\lipsum[8-10]
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

Abstract in single column/rest of article in double column

If you need more than two columns, modify the mandatory { } argument of \multicols. In the above example, the geometry package provides a means to modify the page layout/dimensions (I set the text margins to be 2cm from the page border using margin=2cm), while the lipsum package provides dummy text.

[Tex/LaTex] Remove “Abstract” title from Abstract

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.

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