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I am seeing a weird behavior in the textwidth in Latex. When I use \documentclass[a4paper]{article} the actual text width do not really all the \textwidth. I can see that if I use showframes in geometry. The problem does not occur in \documentclass[a4paper]{report}.

example 1:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article} % use larger type; default would be 10pt
\usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in,showframe]{geometry} % to change the page dimensions top=1in, bottom=1in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in,
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{array}

\title{TEST}
\author{?}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\abstract{???}
\tableofcontents
\newpage


\section{Introduction}\label{sec:Introdu}
\lipsum

\end{document}

example 2:

\documentclass[a4paper]{report} % use larger type; default would be 10pt
\usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in,showframe]{geometry} % to change the page dimensions top=1in, bottom=1in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in,
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{array}

\title{TEST}
\author{?}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\abstract{???}
\tableofcontents
\newpage


\section{Introduction}\label{sec:Introdu}
\lipsum

\end{document}

article

report

Courvoisier
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In article class abstract is an environment that typesets the abstract in a narrower width. \abstract is equivalent to \begin{abstract} so you never really end the abstract, thus the entire doc is typeset in a narrower width.

Use

\begin{abstract} 
... 
 \end{abstract}
barbara beeton
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daleif
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  • @Courvoisier If this solved your problem, then mark the answer as accepted. I've seen this issue before. It is a bit annoying that some classes issues the abstract as a macro argument while most does it as an environment – daleif Feb 23 '16 at 18:40
  • Couldn't accept before some time for some reason. Thanks for the quick reply – Courvoisier Feb 23 '16 at 23:15