Title, abstract, and text beginning on same page

Question

What I want to do, is to create a document, which starts off with a title-minipage, abstract, and then start the main section. Ideally, i would like to do it on the same page, kind of like a magazine article, rather than a bound book (which is how the latex titlepage appears.

Something like this:

\documentclass[notitlepage]{report}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlething}
     Formatting for title + author etc., perhaps even with
\end{titlething}
\maketitle 
\begin{abstract}
   abstract-text
\end{abstract}
\section{First bit}
If you want to ramp your text straight onto the title page, start the text at 
something that does not cause a page break, like a section.  Here's a handy 
place to introduce some of your woofy conventions, like quotes in equations.
\chapter{New Page}
A new chapter starts a new page.  
\end{document}

My idea was perhaps to set the title page in a minipage? I'm trying to keep chapters in the document though, if that's a help, because i have a considerable collection in the 'report' style.

A minipage does not work. \nopagebreak[4] does not work.

Actually 'notitlepage' option does work. What is happening is that when you create a chapter, then that starts on a new page. This is what most of my documents look like.

So if you really want to start text on the first page, consider using something like a section to introduce things before the first chapter.

Wendy is happy now. :)

Answer 1

It seems that use of titling http://www.ctan.org/pkg/titling is a way to do it

Code

\documentclass[notitlepage]{report}
\usepackage[left=1in, right=1in, top=1in, bottom=1in]{geometry}

\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\pretitle{\begin{center}\Huge\bfseries}
\posttitle{\par\end{center}\vskip 0.5em}
\preauthor{\begin{center}\Large\ttfamily}
\postauthor{\end{center}}
\predate{\par\large\centering}
\postdate{\par}

\title{TITLE}
\author{NAME and ID}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}

\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{abstract}
\lipsum[1]
\end{abstract}

\section*{First bit}
If you want to ramp your text straight onto the title page, start the text at 
something that does not cause a page break, like a section.  Here's a handy 
place to introduce some of your woofy conventions, like quotes in equations.
\chapter{New Page}
A new chapter starts a new page.  
\end{document}

Answer 2

If you want to have it look like an article, you should use an article. Like this, no hacking is needed. The command \chapter does not exist, but \section will give a title like "1 Chapter" anyway. If you want to get a report feeling for the next chapters (sections), you can just add a \clearpage behind your first chapter.

In your collection, you just have to replace all \subsection by \subsubsection, all \section by \subsection and finally all \chapter by \section. And then change the documentclass to article.

Looks like this:

% arara: pdflatex

\documentclass{article}
\author{author}
\date{\today}
\title{title}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{abstract}
    abstract-text
\end{abstract}
\section{First bit}
If you want to ramp your text straight onto the title page, start the text at 
something that does not cause a page break, like a section.  Here's a handy 
place to introduce some of your woofy conventions, like quotes in equations.
\newpage
\section{New Page}
A new chapter starts a new page.
\end{document}