I'm using IEEEtran.cls
for a journal paper and I'm unable to make a one column abstract using the inbuilt commands in IEEEtran: \onecolumn
, \twocolumn
. Switching between the two flushes the page and starts a new one. \nopagebreak
doesn't work. Tried putting samepage
tags. Didn't help either. I'm compiling using Xelatex
. Any way to make one column and two column in the same page?
1 Answer
A minimal working example:
\documentclass{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{The title}
\author{You}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn[
\begin{@twocolumnfalse}
\maketitle
\end{@twocolumnfalse}
\begin{abstract}
~{\lipsum[1]\lipsum[1]}
\end{abstract}
\bigskip]
\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1-7]
\end{document}
Note: For some reason \lipsum[1]
inside the abstract
environment must be enclosed with brackets and must be at least one character before (it can be be ~
, but no a normal space), but nothing of this is needed for real text.
\begin{figure*}...\end{figure*}
or\begin{table*}...\end{table*}