Issues with the abstract

[PublicHealthDataGeek]

How can I add new paragraphs to the abstract? I have added the abstract in the _quarto.yml but I cant figure out how to get it into paragraphs. I have tried \n and breaking it up with quotation marks but it isnt working.

Also, my abstract is long and the 'title page' for the abstract now renders at the bottom of a new page and then abstract content is on a second page. I have tried to figure out how to change this in the yml, cls etc but I cant seem to do it and save the cls.

Many thanks

[PublicHealthDataGeek]

OK. I figured out how to do it. To get the abstract into paragraphs, this seems to be the style that needs to be adopted. You alter this in the _quarto.yml file.

  abstract: |
    test to see if 
    
    this works

This then renders as:
test to see if
this works

I tried lots of other options such as \n, quotations, etc but this was what worked for me.

The second issue I resolved by editing the MastersDoctoralThesis.cls in the _extensions folder.