How do i format the abstract title? Also, i thought this was built into latex, but in LEd it says it doesn't recognize it, so i add \usepackage{abstract}. Is this suppose to be like this.
Sorry new to latex, so still trying to get the hang of it.
Formatting – Best Practices for Formatting an Abstract
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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 …
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.
It seems that use of titling http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling is a way to do it
Code
\documentclass[notitlepage]{report}
\usepackage[left=1in, right=1in, top=1in, bottom=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\pretitle{\begin{center}\Huge\bfseries}
\posttitle{\par\end{center}\vskip 0.5em}
\preauthor{\begin{center}\Large\ttfamily}
\postauthor{\end{center}}
\predate{\par\large\centering}
\postdate{\par}
\title{TITLE}
\author{NAME and ID}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}
\section*{First bit}
If you want to ramp your text straight onto the title page, start the text at
something that does not cause a page break, like a section. Here's a handy
place to introduce some of your woofy conventions, like quotes in equations.
\chapter{New Page}
A new chapter starts a new page.
\end{document}
Best Answer
I think that the title of an abstract is usually just 'Abstract', hence the fact that instruction manuals often don't tell you how to change it. For the
reportclass, you can do the following.