What is the purpose of \summary in tex?

Question

I have to write a report using LaTeX for my final year project at university. Having been given some example documents to learn to use it, a common command, \summary, keeps appearing. However, what's written inside the summary doesn't appear anywhere in the produced document. Is it some kind of internal documentation?

Answer 1

With a quick google, it is likely that /summary is used as a shortcut to reuse the abstract in one place.

Looking at a few templates : ucl thesis template, book template and stackoverflow it tends to be a custom command used for repeated style. Look through the different files for "summary" to see if appears in the preamble somewhere.