____________________ The ABSTRACT package 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. Will Robertson is now maintaining this package. Please contact him in preference to the original author, Peter Wilson, for feature requests and bug reports. _______________ Change history: Version 1.2a (2009/06/08) - New package maintainer (Will) Peter's change history: Changes in version 1.2 (2009/05/23) - Added style option - \abstitleskip now works as described Changes (2004/04/16) - Changed license from LPPL v1.0 to v1.3 - Updated contact details Changes in version 1.1 - Added an option for a run-in heading ----------------------------------------------------------------- Author: Peter Wilson, Herries Press Maintainer: Will Robertson (will dot robertson at latex-project dot org) Copyright 2000--2009 Peter R. Wilson This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version: This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". The Current Maintainer of this work is Will Robertson. This work consists of the files: README (this file) abstract.dtx abstract.ins and the derived file: abstract.sty The distribution consists of the files: README (this file) abstract.dtx abstract.ins abstract.pdf (the user manual) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To install the package: - run: latex abstract.ins (which will generate abstract.sty) - 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 - run: pdflatex abstract.dtx - For an index, run: makeindex -s gind.ist abstract - run: pdflatex abstract.dtx - Print abstract.pdf for a hardcopy of the user manual 2009/05/23 Peter Wilson 2009/06/08 Will Robertson will dot robertson at latex-project dot org