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Oh, by the way, on a similar note. Does anyone have some example file or template for how to use the abstract-package (incidently by the same authors as the titling-package). Personally, I think that both the titling and abstract should come with some (easy!) examples/templates on how to use them ...

This titlesec looks promising. The only downside is that it's one more thing to lose yourself in

Thanks for taking the time to do a working example. It would be much appreciated I can tell you!

Thank you Thorsten! Now it works!

Ok, I didn't now about the obsolete-ness of amsart. However, I'm not sure I like the way the article-class make the file look; I really like the way amsart made the files look. But maybe I'll get used to it. Or maybe I'll customaize to the best of my abilities ...

Thanks for your answer and sorry for the delay in responding.

I have now installed the titling package. However, I have a problem: the title works fine as I want it, but the author information (i.e., my name and affiliation) doesn't show.

My preamble and testfile is as follows:

\documentclass ...

Hello,

I would like to reformat the title to have it leftaligned ("flushleft") or rightaligned ("flushright"). In addition I would like to draw a line immediately above and below the title.

The same goes for author data (well, maybe without the line things ;) ).

Does anyone have any idea how to ...