I am writing a report (\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}) which has an abstract in the beginning. I am using \usepackage{abstract} to write it. Then I am using \begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract} to put the abstract in the document. The problem is that the heading "Abstract" is at the same font size as the writing under it, only bold. I need to be able to control the size of this heading. Can anyone please help me.
[Tex/LaTex] Changing the font size of the heading
abstractfontsize
Related Solutions
Enclose the thebibliography environment in a group and switch to \footnotesize within the group. EDIT: Or even better, switch to \footnotesize inside the thebibliography environment.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{foo}
Some text in \verb|\normalsize| \cite{test}.
\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\footnotesize
\bibitem{test} A bibliography item in \verb|\footnotesize|.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
Many document classes store standard section names such as Abstract and References in variables with names such as \abstractname and \refname. Often you just have to change their definition.
\renewcommand\abstractname{\textbf{Abstract}}
However, in this case things are slightly more complicated, because amsart.cls uses
\scshape\abstractname
to typeset the heading for the abstract. I think it's true to say that in the default font, there are no bold small capitals, so in
\scshape\textbf{\abstractname}
the \scshape gets ignored, and the above \renewcommand works as intended. However, if you load a font that does have these glyphs (e.g. with \usepackage{mathptmx}) then 'Abstract' will end up capitalised. To prevent this, you can use the etoolbox package to get rid of \scshape entirely, and replace it with \textbf.
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\patchcmd{\abstract}{\scshape\abstractname}{\textbf{\abstractname}}{}{}
\begin{document}
\author{A Mathematician}
\title{A nice paper}
\begin{abstract}
This is the abstract.
\end{abstract}
\maketitle
\end{document}
Best Answer
If there are no language requirements (via
babel, for example), a simplewould work. Here you can modify
\largeto your liking. However, withabstract, the preferred way is to modify\abstractnamefont:for example.