Article Abstracts

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Note: this is sort of a stub article which I sketched out to remind myself what I wanted to write later. If anyone else wants to work on it, feel free!

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LaTeX

Much as with Document Titles, the standard LaTeX document classes define an \abstract command to typeset an abstract in a way that distinguishes it from the rest of the text.

% Note: this is the old Document Title example, as filler.

\documentclass{article}
  \title{How to do this in Context}
  \author{The author}
  \date{July 26, 2005}
\begin{document}
  \maketitle
\end{document}

ConTeXt: A simple solution

The simplest way of producing an abstract in a ConTeXt document is to specify the formatting directly. The following version is a close approximation of the version produced by the \abstract command in LaTeX's startard article class.

% Again, this is filler from the Document Titles page.

\starttext
\startalignment[center]
  \blank[2*big]
    {\tfd How to do this in Context}
  \blank[3*medium]
    {\tfa The author}
  \blank[2*medium]
    {\tfa July 26, 2005}
  \blank[3*medium]
\stopalignment

Then, the actual text of the document starts here.  We'll put in enough text to
fill out the line and start to make a paragraph.
\stoptext

ConTeXt: A more reusable solution

(The formatting can be placed in a module, etc., etc.)