On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:00:54PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> Hi.. I'm writing a paper using the article class. It's in the 2-column
> format. However the abstract and KEYWORDS need to be in a single column,
> centered on the page. How can I do this?
Use the abstract.sty package.
You will need to add
\let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle
\renewcommand{\maketitle}{}
to the preamble in order to disable the automatic \maketitle which is added
by LyX, and then use something like
\twocolumn[
\oldmaketitle
\begin{onecolabstract}
...
\end{onecolabstract}
]