Quarto PDF book: "LaTeX Error: Environment abstract undefined"

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I am writing a quarto book. I include abstract: under book: in the _quarto.yml file. My GitHub Actions knits the file to several output formats (HTML, EPUB, and PDF). Knitting to HTML and EPUB works fine. However, knitting to PDF errors out with the following error:

ERROR: 
compilation failed- error
LaTeX Error: Environment abstract undefined.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
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l.328 \begin{abstract}
                       

ERROR: Error
    at Object.onComplete (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:92847:91)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:153:7)
    at async renderFiles (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:78077:16)
    at async renderProject (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:78479:25)
    at async Command.actionHandler (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:83077:32)
    at async Command.execute (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:8017:13)
    at async Command.parseCommand (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:7907:20)
    at async quarto (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:118224:9)
    at async file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:118244:9
    at async mainRunner (file:///opt/quarto/bin/quarto.js:118128:9)
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

The error is because my LaTeX document class (krantz) does not include an abstract environment, as noted in the following forum posts:

Quarto PDF book / scrbook - environment abstract undefined...

Hello, all. I'm struggling to get the abstract environment working with PDF book formats. It works fine for the base Quarto PDF, but when I try to use it with a book or scrbook document class, like this: format: pdf: documentclass: book % or scrbook abstract: This is my abstract. I get: LaTeX Error: Environment abstract undefined. I've tried this a number of ways as I am working with partials, etc., but can't get it to work in any configuration. Here are the minimal steps to reproduce the problem: Create a new Quarto document, choose type PDF Add abstract: This is my abstract. to the YAML frontmatter. Render. The PDF is output without error and it includes the abstract. Change…

LaTex error Environment abstract undefined

I am trying to create a template for a bachelor thesis (with RMarkdown) for my students and I cannot add the "Abstract" parameter in my yaml document. More specifically, when I am trying to knit it to pdf, I am getting the following error message: " ! LaTeX Error: Environment abstract undefined. Fehler: Failed to compile _main.tex. ". In global options I have (Sweave - typeset LaTeX into Pdf: pdfLaTeX). Furthermore, I installed tinytex as follows: tinytex::install_tinytex() . Any help will be highly appreciated. Thnx a lot in advance

However, it is "by design" that my document class does not include an abstract environment. I don't want the abstract to appear in the PDF version, if possible, because I want to use the krantz document class. Yet I still want to include the Abstract in the HTML version. And I'd prefer not to have to maintain separate _quarto.yml files for HTML vs PDF outputs.

To try to address this, I moved abstract: to the format: section. This allows the book to be knitted to each format--i.e., it no longer results in an error; however, it results in the abstract being printed on every page/chapter of the HTML, as described in the following discussion: in quarto book, why is META-DESCRIPTION posted on top of every page? · quarto-dev/quarto-cli · Discussion #2282 · GitHub.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Basically, I want to accomplish the following:

• I want the HTML output to include an Abstract section, but I do not want to include it at the top of every chapter
• I do not want the PDF output to include an Abstract section
• I do not to maintain separate _quarto.yml files for the HTML, EPUB, and PDF versions
• I do not want the PDF version (or any version) to error out when knitting

Thanks in advance!