front-matterreport
I'm writing my thesis using the report class, which does not support the \frontmatter, \mainmatter, or \backmatter commands. However, I really like the idea of having Roman numeral page numbering for the abstract and other front-matter items as provided by \frontmatter. Is there an easy way to import this (or similar) functionality into the report class?
Thanks in advance for the help!
You can use titlesec's commands anywhere and their effect will be limited to the group, or environment, containing them. The following document works with changing of sections and chapters. For illustration, I have only demonstrated sections; uncomment the lines in the body with \chapter commands to see these working too.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\itshape}{\thesection}{1em}{}{}
\newenvironment{alttitles}{\titleformat{\chapter}[display]%
{\normalfont\huge\itshape}{\chaptertitlename\ \thechapter}{20pt}{\Huge}%
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\scshape}{\thesection}{1em}{}{}}{}
\begin{document}
%\chapter{First chapter}
\section{A section}
\begin{alttitles}
%\chapter{Next chapter}
\section{Another section}
\end{alttitles}
\section{A last section}
\end{document}
When trying to implement this with your own styles, I suggest you first get the titlesec commands working globally in a spearate document to help debugging. After that you can build them in to an environment, if you so wish, or simply include them in the appropriate group, e.g.
{
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\Large\scshape}{\thesection}{1em}{}{}
\section{A small caps section}
Text.
}
You can redifine the abstract:
\documentclass{report}
\newenvironment{multipleabstract}[1]
{\renewcommand{\abstractname}{#1}\begin{abstract}\thispagestyle{plain}}
{\end{abstract}}
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{abstract}{%
\if@twocolumn
\section*{\abstractname}%
\else
\small
\begin{center}%
{\bfseries \abstractname\vspace{-.5em}\vspace{\z@}}%
\end{center}%
\quotation
\fi}
{\if@twocolumn\else\endquotation\fi}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{multipleabstract}{Abstract1}
...
\end{multipleabstract}
\newpage
\begin{multipleabstract}{Abstract2}
...
\end{multipleabstract}
\end{document}
Best Answer
As egreg said, the easiest way is to use
booksince the main difference betweenbookandreportis that it has these commands. however if you just want the page number switching without the switch in functionality of chapter to appendix in the back matter you can simply copy the definitions from book, ignoring the@mainmatterswitch: