<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Many books have content at the start of chapters (and some sections) like "Read this chapter for instructions on how to do X". I would like to be able to mark that up so that it is visually distinct for the reader. </div><div><br></div><div>I think <abstract> is the appropriate tag for this use-case but it is formatted in publican as standard text and it always provides the title of <b>Abstract</b> at the top. <abstract> can include the child tag of <title> but it is currently ignored.</div><div><br></div><div>Any issues with having <abstract> <para> formatted as in a slightly more distinct fashion (slightly bigger or perhaps different font or bold?) and making the use of <title> within abstract explicit (if you don't supply it then it has no title) ?</div><div><br></div><div>Or is there another tag that fits the bill ?</div><div><br></div><div>This would also mean that <title>Abstract</title> would have to be inserted into the abstract in the book templates & people would have to update that on their existing books.</div><div><br></div><br><br><div>
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