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Is there a way to make a one column abstract in a two column document be the same width as the following twocolumn text?

This question follows on from this answer.

MWE:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\title{Title}

\begin{document}

\twocolumn[
  \begin{@twocolumnfalse} 
    \maketitle 
    \begin{abstract}
    \blindtext
    \end{abstract}
  \end{@twocolumnfalse}
]

\Blindtext

\end{document}
Danny Garside
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2 Answers2

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In the article class the abstract is set narrower than the textwidth. You could define your own version of abstract, say myabstract and use that, as below.

% onetwocolprob.tex SE 537843

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\newenvironment{myabstract}{%
  \small
  \begin{center} \bfseries Abstract \end{center}%
  }{\vspace{\baselineskip}}

\title{Title}

\begin{document}

\twocolumn[
  \begin{@twocolumnfalse} 
    \maketitle 
%    \begin{abstract}
    \begin{myabstract}
    \blindtext
    \end{myabstract}
%    \end{abstract}
  \end{@twocolumnfalse}
]

\Blindtext

\end{document}

Just a comment; I think that the original narrower abstract looks better.

Peter Wilson
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Make your "own abstract". With the following, for instance, you can simulate an abstract.

\twocolumn[
  \begin{@twocolumnfalse} 
    \maketitle 
    \begin{center}
        Abstract
    \end{center}
%    \begin{abstract}
    \hspace{1em}\blindtext 
    \\
%    \end{abstract}
  \end{@twocolumnfalse}
]

With this code, you lost the semantic meaning of an abstract, but if you won't reference in the table of contents, is a minor problem.

djnavas
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