Re: Run-in heading for abstract

[Michael Piotrowski]

"Valeriy E. Ushakov" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 15:34:12 +0200, Michael Piotrowski wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently trying to get an abstract (report) with a run-in
> > heading, i.e., something like this:
> > 
> >    Abstract: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,
> >    sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna
> >    aliquam erat volutpat.
> 
> BTW :), do you know that this "canonical" text is trimmed badly?
> Here's the full text of that paragraph (I capitalized the "lorem
> ipsum"), quoted after

[...]

Yes, I knew that; and I think it's funny that in typesetting, the
mangled text is now maybe even more of a classic than Cicero's
original...

> > Unfortunately, setting
> > 
> >    @AbstractFormat { @Title: @Body }
> > 
> > doesn't work if the abstract consists of multiple paragraphs. 
> 
> Yep.  Because you've got, effectively:
> 
>     @Title: &1s @OneRow { some text @PP next para ... }

Uh huh, I suspected something like this...

> That's the situation @Insert is for:
> 
>     @AbstractFormat { { @Title: &1s } @Insert @Body }
> 
> So to say, @Insert doesn't operate on objects, it operates at the
> parse tree level, inserting it's left paramter as if it was,
> textually, the start of its right parameter.  I.e.  the result will be
> 
>     { @Title: &1s some text @PP next para ... }

Thanks a lot, that's exactly what I wanted!  I just looked up @Insert
in the Expert's Guide--it's easy to find if you know what you're
looking for ;-)  I think I learned something...

Greetings

-- 
Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                                  <address@hidden>