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From: willner@cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: LaTeX title/abstract
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.194539.7195@cfa255.harvard.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 19:45:39 GMT
Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA,  USA
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This must be simple, but I don't see how to do it.  I want a
scientific paper basically in \documentstyle[twocolumn]{article}, but
the title and abstract should occupy the full width at the top of the
first page.  (I do not want a separate title page.)  The title comes
out that way by default (using the normal \title{}, \author{},
\maketitle commands), but the abstract is single column.  Something
like \onecolumn without the \clearpage ought to do what I want, but
it doesn't seem to exist.  I'm happy to hack up a style file is
somebody will tell me what to do.

One other tidbit: actually, I want the abstract a bit narrower than
the full width.  I was going to do that with a minipage or perhaps
quote environment, but if there's an easier way, please let me know.

All help gratefully appreciated.
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