two-column layout for article abstract

Hello,

I'm trying to customize the fo stylesheets to produce a IEEE-compliant
paper. The template that I'm looking at prints the abstract within the
first column. It seems that the DB stylesheets aren't prepared to have
the abstract be part of the two-column layout, as there doesn't appear
to be a "column.count.abstract" parameter. Is that a simple omission, or
is there a more  fundamental reason behind this ?

Thanks,
        Stefan

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