General ⇒ Abstract Heading question

[waxranger]

Hi

I'm using the ngerman.sty package for german language. Unfortunately the heading for the "Abstract" is translated in german as well, but I think it looks better not to use the german translation. Is there some way to define the \abstractname{} in the preamble of the document without changing the entry in the ngerman.sty file?

thanks
Fab

[localghost]

Just redefine the name command of the abstract to what you want.

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\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Abstract}

As a German user you'd better use the babel package for multilingual documents with an equivalent option.

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\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

Then the redefinition looks a little bit different.

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\addto{\captionsngerman}{
  \renewcommand{\abstractname}{Abstract}
}

Take a look at the documentation of the babel package to learn more.


Best reagrds an welcome on Board
Thorsten

[waxranger]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

you solved my problem! I did try the \renewcommand but it didn't work, because I was using babel with ngerman...

got to check the manual as you said!

thanks + regards
Fab