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From: willner@cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX title/abstract
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.180914.8235@cfa255.harvard.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 18:09:14 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.194539.7195@cfa255.harvard.edu>
Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA,  USA
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From article <1991Jun12.194539.7195@cfa255.harvard.edu>, I asked:
> 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.

Together, nico@cs.ruu.nl and I have found a way to do this.  It's
really ugly, but it works.  I have no idea how it will interact with
footnotes or other complications.  The sequence is:

\documentstyle{article}    % no twocolumn here
\begin{document}
\title{}
\author{}
\twocolumn[                % note [ for optional argument
\maketitle
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}  % this is necessary
\begin{quotation}        % narrows the margins a little; omit if not wanted
\begin{abstract}         % prints "Abstract" in appropriate style
  abstract text here
\bigskip                 % skips outside get discarded
\end{abstract}
\end{quotation}
\end{minipage}]  % note ] to close optional argument of \twocolumn

It ought to be possible to do this with style files alone.  Anybody
who knows how, please post or email.  (The earlier suggestion of
using proc.sty does not work, at least in the obvious way.)
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