"Problem description" to look like abstract

Question

I would like to have my "Problem Description" to have the same look/layout as abstract. Any way I can "clone" the the abstract command?

preamble:

\documentclass[pdftex,10pt,b5paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[lmargin=25mm,rmargin=25mm,tmargin=27mm,bmargin=30mm]{geometry}

Answer 1

\newenvironment{problemdesc}
  {\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Problem Description}%
   \begin{abstract}}
  {\end{abstract}}

In this way you can also use the normal abstract environment.

If many kinds of this generalized abstract environment are needed, one can do the following

\newenvironment{genabstract}[1][]
  {\ifx\relax\detokenize{#1}\relax
     % no optional argument
   \else
     % provide the desired title
     \renewcommand{\abstractname}{#1}%
   \fi
   \begin{abstract}}
  {\end{abstract}}

The calls can then be

\begin{genabstract}
<regular abstract>
\end{genabstract}

\begin{genabstract}[Problem Description]
<problem description>
\end{genabstract}

Don't feed \abstractname as the optional argument, as this would cause infinite recursion (it would be possible to avoid this, but it seems overkill).

Answer 2

\documentclass[english]{report}
\usepackage{babel,blindtext}
\begin{document}

{\renewcommand\abstractname{Problem Description}%
\begin{abstract}
\blindtext
\end{abstract}%
}

\begin{abstract}
\blindtext
\end{abstract}%

\blindtext
\end{document}