Thanks Dekel

For the record I got an error with your first suggestion, and tried this
instead, which worked, so I'm sticking with it. I don't know why it
works, but it does...:

Style Acknowledgement
  Margin                Static
  LatexType             Environment
  LatexName             acknowledgements
  NextNoIndent          1
  LeftMargin            MMM
  RightMargin           MMM
  ParIndent             MM
  ItemSep               0
  TopSep                0.7
  BottomSep             0.7
  ParSep                0
  Align                 Block
  AlignPossible         Block
  LabelType             Centered_Top_Environment
  LabelString           Acknowledgements
  LabelBottomSep    0.5

  # standard font definition
  Font
    Size                Small
  EndFont

  # label font definition
  LabelFont
    Series              Bold
    Size                Large
  EndFont
  Preamble
\newcommand\ackname{Acknowledgements}
    \newenvironment{acknowledgements}{%
     \titlepage
      \null\vfil
      \@beginparpenalty\@lowpenalty
      \begin{center}%
        \bfseries \ackname
        \@endparpenalty\@M
      \end{center}}%
EndPreamble
End


Dekel Tsur wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:17:20PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > Assuming you want the acknowledgement paragraph to be similar to abstract,
> > you need following lines:
> 
> I forgot about CopyStyle.
> What you need is just
> 
> Style Acknowledgement
>   CopyStyle   Abstract
>   LatexName   ack
>   LabelString Acknowledgements
>   Preamble
> \newenvironment{ack}%
>   {\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Acknowledgements}\begin{abstract}}%
>   {\end{abstract}}
>   EndPreamble
> End

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