Title and abstract together on the first page of a report

Question

I've just read this:

Abstract and title together on the first page of an article

Can I achieve the same for a report? If I use the same code in a report-class document, I still get a page break between the title and the abstract.

Example document:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\title{This is my title}
\author{Me myself and I}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
This is the abstract.
\end{abstract}
\end{titlingpage}
\blinddocument
\end{document}

You might consider not using \maketitle at all. – Johannes_B Jan 06 '18 at 08:20 — Johannes_B, Jan 06 '18 at 08:20

einpoklum · Answer 1 · 2018-04-10T13:23:52.693

A hackish way to do it, suggested here, is placing the \maketitle within a minipage, so its page-clearing is "contained" and doesn't really affect the outer document:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\title{This is my title}
\author{Me myself and I}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
This is the abstract.
\end{abstract}
\end{minipage}
\blinddocument
\end{document}

Unfortunately, this will prevent footnotes from being set on the page.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '18 at 11:20

1

You can use the \maketitlehookd hook for this. Note that the abstract is input before \maketitle.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\newsavebox{\abstractbox}
\renewenvironment{abstract}
 {%
  \global\setbox\abstractbox=\vtop\bgroup
  \begin{center}\bfseries\abstractname\end{center}%
 }
 {\par\egroup}
\renewcommand{\maketitlehookd}{%
  \par\vfil
  \box\abstractbox
}

\title{This is my title}
\author{Me myself and I}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
\begin{abstract}
\blindtext\blindtext
\end{abstract}
\maketitle
\end{titlingpage}
\blinddocument
\end{document}

answered Jan 05 '18 at 11:20

egreg

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Why do we need both the titling package and the custom command? – einpoklum Apr 10 '18 at 13:24
Also, with this in place, I get an error message when placing a footnote inside \author. – einpoklum Apr 10 '18 at 13:29
@einpoklum And where should the footnote appear? – egreg Apr 10 '18 at 15:28
On the bottom of the title page; I can't think of another option. Note that my super-hacky solution has a similar problem. – einpoklum Apr 10 '18 at 15:29
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@einpoklum \author{Me\thanks{Thanks}} does the job cleanly. – egreg Apr 10 '18 at 15:33

Title and abstract together on the first page of a report

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