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Date:         Thu, 17 May 90 07:41:00 PDT
Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list <LATEX-L%DHDURZ1@unido.bitnet>
From: Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.bitnet>
Subject:      Front matter
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Status: R
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It's not pleasant, but it is possible to keep the old syntax and get things like

an abstract on the titlepage, say, to work.

First of all, we need to determine what actually constitutes the beginning of
the text for the abstract on the titlepage example. The possibilities are a
table of contents, list of figures or tables, section header, or text. e.g., the

beginning of our document could look like:

\maketitle
\begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract}
\tableofcontents % or listoffigures or listoftables

\maketitle
\begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract}
\section{...}

or

\maketitle
\begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract}
Some text.

What we do is have \maketitle _not_ print the title, but just start it (either
printing but not finishing the titlepage or storing the results in a box). We
then set a flag saying that we've just done the title and it should be finished.

\section, \listoffigures, \tableofcontents, etc. all check this flag and if all
is well, finish off the title. If there had been an abstract intervening, it
would have been added to the title material appropriately. The only (slightly)
tricky bit is dealing with the last case. 10 bonus points if you can guess the
answer before you turn the page
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We just put the code for finishing the titlepage into \everypar (the stuff in
\tableofcontents, etc. will have to reset \everypar of course). It's elegant and

it keeps the old syntax.

BTW, I want a hook into the \everypar stuff in section headings so that I can
have drop caps and the like after my sections.

-dh

P.S. I take back what I said about this being unpleasant. It's actually kind of
nice.