Hi, thanks for your reply. I'm writing a book, a manuscript, and all publishers here in Belgium need a summary of the story to evaluate it. Since it is quite a big story I'm writing, several hundreds of pages, it seems impossible to cram the abstract into one single page without loosing most of the essential story lines.
I guess I'll have to try out other document classes then. The 'abstract' section definitely is part of the book(AMS) class though. I hope I won't have to dig into hacking a class to get what I want. I'm writing, the story must get finished and I have not time to code, nor do I want to get distracted by issues like this. Now I still need to get Dutch spell checking fixed too, doesn't work out of the box on Ubuntu aparently... another distraction I can miss. Thanks for tips though.. grtz, Bart http://www.bartart3d.be/ On facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/BartArt3D/169488999795102> On Twitter <https://twitter.com/#%21/Bart_Issimo> On Identi.ca <http://identi.ca/bartart3d> On Google+ <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/116379400376517483499/> 2012/6/19 stefano franchi <[email protected]> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:17 AM, bart deruyter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > no reactions at all? Or is this mail lost in the flood? > > > > Hi Bart, > > here is a reaction, even though perhaps not the one you're looking > for: why would you want a multi-page abstract in a book? Have you > thought about using a different environment for what you are trying to > accomplish? To stress the obvious, abstracts are short summaries > generally used for articles only. I don't know the details, but it is > very possible that the possibility of a multi-page abstract is not > even contemplated in the latex class you are using. Hence the problem > you are facing. If you're trying to provide something like an > "Executive summary," a combination of unnumbered document divisions > (i.e. the starred command" *chapter, *section, etc) and ad-hoc > formatting may be all you need. Or you may look into the memoir class, > which offers a more powerful abstract environment than the standard > classes. I think the Komascript book class offers similar facilities. > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > > grtz, > > Bart > > http://www.bartart3d.be/ > > On facebook > > On Twitter > > On Identi.ca > > On Google+ > > > > > > > > 2012/6/18 bart deruyter <[email protected]> > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm using the book (AMS) class for my book here, and I've added an > >> abstract. Now the abstract is longer then one page there seems to be > quite > >> an issue. In the pdf I see the text run through the bottom margin, and > is > >> cut off at the bottom edge of the page. Instead of printing it onto the > next > >> page it seems like the 'abstract part' thinks that the page is longer, > while > >> it isn't. The next page is blank, where the text should continue. > >> > >> What can I do to solve this problem? > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> Bart > >> http://www.bartart3d.be/ > >> On facebook > >> On Twitter > >> On Identi.ca > >> On Google+ > >> > > > > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > Associate Research Professor > Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 > Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 > College Station, Texas, USA > > [email protected] > http://stefano.cleinias.org >
