Hi @jmm, I think I chose a slightly different approach to this.
Instead of putting the abstract in its own section, I put it in an inline field under the title, like this:
abstract:: here goes the abstract/summary of the paper
The advantage is that since it’s an inline field, you can invoke it very easily from dataview; my table looks like
```dataview
table abstract as Abstract
from #project
sort author asc
The disadvantage is what’s above: seems like the default line length for the dataview table is capped at 500 characters. The good news is that that seems to be modifiable (per @Surjaa’s link to the discord thread; you can edit the plugin and increase this size, although will have to do it every time it updates. I haven’t experimented with this yet, so this is just based on the discord thread).
I like your approach too, but I’m really not very fluent in dataview yet so would have to experiment to see how transclusions work in it if they do.