General ⇒ Commands like \backmatter

[latexforever]

Hello everyone,

I simply want to know if there is an equivalent to

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abstract

environment in \LaTeX when using a book template.

Thanks!

[phi]

Usually there is no abstract in books. Sometimes special summary chapters are used for the same purpose. The standard classes simply use a quotation environment to implement the abstract environment. If you really want a similar abstract environment, you can do the same (here for single-column documents):

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\newcommand*{\abstractname}{Abstract}
  \newenvironment{abstract}{%
        \small
        \begin{center}%
          {\bfseries \abstractname\vspace{-.5em}\vspace{0pt}}%
        \end{center}%
        \quotation
      }%
      {\endquotation}

[latexforever]

Thanks, it works very well.

I really like this one.

Thanks you.