Document Classes ⇒ Abstract: How to escape the 'by' followed by author name

[SowmyaRavichandran]

Hi,

I have used the MastersDoctoralthesis Latex template to generate a project report. For distinguished formatting and pagestyle, I wish to edit certain things in it. I tried to keep the abstract page simple with the title "abstract" and contents alone. I was able to edit and generate my desired format.However a predefined 'by' seems to appear during compilation. How can I escape this?

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\begin{abstract}
\addchaptertocentry{\abstractname} % Add the abstract to the table of contents
contents
\end{abstract}

[Johannes_B]

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\renewcaptionname{english}{\byname}{}

If you don't want the predefined abstract-environment, why are you using it?

What is the \hspace supposed to do at the beginning of the paragraph? Either use a parindent uniformly, or use a parskip uniformly, but don't mix.