[Tex/LaTex] Title, abstract, and text beginning on same page

abstracttitles

What I want to do, is to create a document, which starts off with a title-minipage, abstract, and then start the main section. Ideally, i would like to do it on the same page, kind of like a magazine article, rather than a bound book (which is how the latex titlepage appears.

Something like this:

\documentclass[notitlepage]{report}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlething}
     Formatting for title + author etc., perhaps even with
\end{titlething}
\maketitle 
\begin{abstract}
   abstract-text
\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}

My idea was perhaps to set the title page in a minipage? I'm trying to keep chapters in the document though, if that's a help, because i have a considerable collection in the 'report' style.

A minipage does not work. \nopagebreak[4] does not work.

Actually 'notitlepage' option does work. What is happening is that when you create a chapter, then that starts on a new page. This is what most of my documents look like.

So if you really want to start text on the first page, consider using something like a section to introduce things before the first chapter.

Wendy is happy now. 🙂

Best Answer

It seems that use of titling http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling is a way to do it

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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}
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