The abstract package gives you control over the typesetting of the abstract environment, and in particular provides for a one column abstract in a two column paper. Changes (2004/04/16) o Changed license from LPPL v1.0 to v1.3 o Updated contact details Changes in version 1.1 o Added an option for a run-in heading ----------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Peter Wilson (CUA) now at peter.r.wilson@boeing.com until June 2004 (or at: pandgwilson at earthlink dot net) Copyright 2000 --- 2004 Peter R. Wilson This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of the license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later. This work has the LPPL maintenance status "author-maintained". This work consists of the files: README (this file) abstract.dtx abstract.ins abstract.pdf (the user manual) and the derived files: abstract.sty ----------------------------------------------------------------- To install the package: o run: latex abstract.ins (which will generate abstract.sty) o Move abstract.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it (typically in a local texmf tree at tex/latex/abstract) and refresh the file database. See the FAQ on CTAN at help/uk-tex-faq or http://www.tug.ac.uk/faq for more information on this. To process the user manual o run: latex abstract.dtx o For an index, run: makeindex -s gind.ist abstract o run: latex abstract.dtx o Print abstract.dvi for a hardcopy of the user manual 2004/04/16 Peter Wilson peter.r.wilson@boeing.com