    The abstract package gives you control over the typesetting of the
abstract environment, and in particular provides for a one column abstract
in a two column paper. 

Changes (2004/04/16) 
o Changed license from LPPL v1.0 to v1.3
o Updated contact details

Changes in version 1.1
o Added an option for a run-in heading

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  Author: Peter Wilson (CUA) now at peter.r.wilson@boeing.com until June 2004
                             (or at: pandgwilson at earthlink dot net) 
  Copyright 2000 --- 2004 Peter R. Wilson
 
  This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
  conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
  version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any 
  later version.
  The latest version of the license is in
     http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
  and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of
  LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later.
 
  This work has the LPPL maintenance status "author-maintained".
 
  This work consists of the files:
README (this file)
abstract.dtx
abstract.ins
abstract.pdf (the user manual)
  and the derived files:
abstract.sty

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    To install the package:
o run: latex abstract.ins (which will generate abstract.sty)
o Move abstract.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it (typically
  in a local texmf tree at tex/latex/abstract) and refresh the 
  file database. See the FAQ on CTAN at help/uk-tex-faq or
  http://www.tug.ac.uk/faq for more information on this.
    To process the user manual
o run: latex abstract.dtx
o For an index, run: makeindex -s gind.ist abstract
o run: latex abstract.dtx
o Print abstract.dvi for a hardcopy of the user manual 


2004/04/16
Peter Wilson
peter.r.wilson@boeing.com
