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From: damrau@sscux1.ssc.gov (Jackie Damrau)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX title/abstract
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Date: 13 Jun 91 20:25:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.194539.7195@cfa255.harvard.edu> willner@cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner) writes:
>
>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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There are proc.sty or deproc.sty files located in the /inputs directory
to most TeX installations that contain this type of format.
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Jackie Damrau, SSC Laboratory                 
Computer Operations Group, MS-1011,          
2550 Beckleymeade Avenue, Dallas TX            
Internet: damrau@sscvx1.ssc.gov