The essay I'm working on requires an abstract
with no abstract title and does not require any indentation. Therefore, I defined the following:
\renewenvironment{abstract}
{%
\par %
\noindent \begin{bfseries}%
}
{%
\end{bfseries}%
}
However, this following resulted in one character width of space placed in front of my environment abstract
.
\begin{abstract}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Quisque gravida varius tellus, nec consequat nulla egestas dapibus.
Quisque leo justo, pellentesque vehicula nulla commodo, imperdiet egestas turpis.
Ut iaculis ante in tortor aliquet sodales.
Nullam et mauris ultrices neque sollicitudin congue quis sed diam.
Pellentesque blandit hendrerit diam, at cursus nisl eleifend vel.
Ut non egestas justo, ut semper ex.
Nullam laoreet purus eu dui elementum, non blandit turpis lacinia.
Sed eros justo, elementum sit amet dapibus sed, porta a velit.
Morbi a risus vel nibh bibendum consectetur.
Ut pharetra, enim non ornare dapibus, ante nibh auctor quam, ut dapibus eros enim quis lectus.
Suspendisse nec tellus in risus ornare tempus eu eget elit.
Etiam eu neque scelerisque sem congue consequat vitae ut lectus.
Curabitur vel est porta, luctus quam ut, posuere tellus.
\end{abstract}
\ignorespaces
Steven mentioned, a LaTeX environment already adds a group layer, so you don't need to misuse\bfseries
as\begin{bfseries}
...\end{bfseries}
. Just\bfseries
at the\begin
part is enough, and a\par
in the\end
part would prevent unexpected behaviour if someone used\end{abstract}oops
.