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I'm using IEEEtran.cls for a journal paper and I'm unable to make a one column abstract using the inbuilt commands in IEEEtran: \onecolumn, \twocolumn. Switching between the two flushes the page and starts a new one. \nopagebreak doesn't work. Tried putting samepage tags. Didn't help either. I'm compiling using Xelatex. Any way to make one column and two column in the same page?

Mario S. E.
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sprajagopal
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    do you want the one column to insert a Figure or Table? – Mario S. E. Oct 25 '13 at 09:42
  • @MarioS.E. I need for a onecolumn abstract. – sprajagopal Oct 25 '13 at 09:47
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    because IEEE doesn't use one column abstract. why do you want to modify it if it is going to be an IEEE paper? – percusse Oct 25 '13 at 09:48
  • I'm with @percusse on this one. IEEE only uses one column for large tables or figures, and for that you just need \begin{figure*}...\end{figure*} or \begin{table*}...\end{table*} – Mario S. E. Oct 25 '13 at 09:50
  • It's not for an IEEE conference. I'm changing a few things in the IEEE style. Purpose aside, any way to do it? – sprajagopal Oct 25 '13 at 09:55
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    @MarioS.E. I did some naughty stuff before :) but I really recommend not doing this the fonts and other settings look ugly. Evidence : http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/50715/3235 – percusse Oct 25 '13 at 09:59
  • Figured it out. I put the title and the abstract inside figure* and I used the twocolumn document class. Worked. Relaxed the clearpage in the twocolumn. – sprajagopal Oct 25 '13 at 10:23

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A minimal working example:

MWE

\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{The title}
\author{You}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[
\begin{@twocolumnfalse}
\maketitle
\end{@twocolumnfalse}
\begin{abstract}
~{\lipsum[1]\lipsum[1]}
\end{abstract}
\bigskip]
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-7]
\end{document}

Note: For some reason \lipsum[1] inside the abstract environment must be enclosed with brackets and must be at least one character before (it can be be ~, but no a normal space), but nothing of this is needed for real text.

Fran
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