abstract
I have a LaTeX document with two abstracts (in two different languages)
I would like to change the 'abstract' to another title.
I cannot use \renewcommand{\abstractname}{Example} because I need to define two different abstract names.
Can this be done somehow?
\usepackage{abstract}
\begin{abstract}
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Example}
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\end{abstract}
\pagebreak
\begin{abstract}
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Example2}
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\end{abstract}
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.
That definition is good for one abstract only. For more than one I suggest something like this:
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[english,italian]{babel}
\newenvironment{abstractpage}
{\cleardoublepage\vspace*{\fill}\thispagestyle{empty}}
{\vfill\cleardoublepage}
\newenvironment{abstract}[1]
{\bigskip\selectlanguage{#1}%
\begin{center}\bfseries\abstractname\end{center}}
{\par\bigskip}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{abstractpage}
\begin{abstract}{italian}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\begin{abstract}{english}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\end{abstractpage}
\end{document}
You are of course responsible that the abstracts are short enough to stay in one page only.
Best Answer
The following example uses package
babelto add support for different languages. The example usesenglishas main language and adds a abstract inngerman. Environmentabstractuses\abstractname, which is automatically redefined for different languages. Also switching the language sets the correct hyphenation patterns for the language.