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I have to write a report using LaTeX for my final year project at university. Having been given some example documents to learn to use it, a common command, \summary, keeps appearing. However, what's written inside the summary doesn't appear anywhere in the produced document. Is it some kind of internal documentation?

Joseph Durrant
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  • Can you provide a complete, minimal example of the code that uses this `\summary` command? It should start with `\documentclass` and end with `\end{document}`, and you should provide links to class files/packages that are not standard/available on [CTAN](//ctan.org). – Werner Oct 05 '17 at 05:54

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With a quick google, it is likely that /summary is used as a shortcut to reuse the abstract in one place.

Looking at a few templates : ucl thesis template, book template and stackoverflow it tends to be a custom command used for repeated style. Look through the different files for "summary" to see if appears in the preamble somewhere.

Pieter Oliver
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  • You are correct, it's from the .cls file that was provided for the document styling. I an completely new to TeX, and had assumed the environment was part of TeX itself. I'm still not totally sure what it does, so here's the definition if you can help: `\newcommand{\summary}[1]{\renewcommand{\@summary{#1}}` `\newcommand{\@summary}{\ClassError{cmpfinalreport}{No\string\summary\space given}{}}` – Joseph Durrant Oct 05 '17 at 22:24
  • There is another piece of code that generates the abstract, which uses \summary, later on in the .cls file. – Joseph Durrant Oct 05 '17 at 22:31