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GegznaV
GegznaV

Reputation: 5600

How to translate title of `abstract` in a pandoc's markdown (e.g., Rmd) document?

In the YAML header of a pandoc's markdown file, it's possible to write an abstract. I wonder if there is a way to change the word "abstract" in the rendered document to something else like either word "summary" or equivalent in another language.

If not, what alternatives could be suggested? I'm using R Markdown.

p.s. My question is related to this comment.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 2499

Answers (3)

Benjamin W.
Benjamin W.

Reputation: 52506

The HTML template now includes the abstract, and its heading can be customized using the metadata variable abstract-title:

---
title: A title
author: An author
abstract: >
  The abstract.
abstract-title: Summary
---

Notice that this only affects the HTML, EPUB, and docx writers, though.

Upvotes: 1

tarleb
tarleb

Reputation: 22659

If your main interest is in localization of your document, you can add an lang meta value to your document. E.g., setting lang: lt will give "Santrauka" instead of "Abstract" in the produced PDF.

Upvotes: 3

Dirk is no longer here
Dirk is no longer here

Reputation: 368539

Yes. But not automatically. You would have to redefine the abstract environment to start with a different header, or at least redefine the \abstractname variable as article.cls has this:

\newenvironment{abstract}{%
      \titlepage
      \null\vfil
      \@beginparpenalty\@lowpenalty
      \begin{center}%
        \bfseries \abstractname           %%%% This what you need to redefine
        \@endparpenalty\@M
      \end{center}}%
     {\par\vfil\null\endtitlepage}

So you can do something like the following minimal example:

---
title: "Test Document"
author: "Some User"
output: pdf_document
abstract: >
  One or two sentences describing it all.
header-includes:
  \renewcommand{\abstractname}{My Very Own Summary}
---    

## R Markdown

This is an R Markdown document.

which does what you desire:

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Upvotes: 6

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