On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:00:54PM -0400, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I'm writing a paper using the article class. It's in the 2-column > format. However the abstract and KEYWORDS need to be in a single column, > centered on the page. How can I do this?
Use the abstract.sty package. You will need to add \let\oldmaketitle=\maketitle \renewcommand{\maketitle}{} to the preamble in order to disable the automatic \maketitle which is added by LyX, and then use something like \twocolumn[ \oldmaketitle \begin{onecolabstract} ... \end{onecolabstract} ]