Page Layout ⇒ How to remove extra contents from Abstract title?

[Ahmadnia2011]

Hi,
I'm using "Masters/Doctoral Thesis" template,
in the Abstract page, between Abstract title and body text, my name, title of thesis, and university name appear,
while I don't need to these information in the Abstract page and I need to remove them from this page.
(I mean that I just need the Abstract title and Abstract texts, and no more thing between them).
Would you please guide me to how remove "my name, title of thesis, and university name" from the abstract page?
Thanks,
Ben

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Ben,

welcome to the forum!

You can simply write this before \begin{document} in your main.tex:

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\DeclareDocumentEnvironment{abstract}{ O{} }{
  \checktoopen
  \tttypeout{\abstractname}
    #1%added to be able to have abstract more than one page long
  \thispagestyle{plain}
  \begin{center}
    {\huge\textit{\abstractname} \par}
  \end{center}
}

This changes the abstract. You can modify this code like you wish.

Stefan

[Ahmadnia2011]

Thanks dear Stefan,

Applying the code, the extra words have been removed, but when I uncomment "consistentlayout" to change the layout of the abstract and acknowledgements pages to match the default layout, abstract page seems not the same as acknowledgments page. Abstract page is not as normal as the rest.
Any possibility for this problem?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could instead insert the whole abstract stuff from the class before \begin{document}:

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\makeatletter
\ifbool{consistentlayout}{
	\DeclareDocumentEnvironment{abstract}{ O{} }{%
		\addchap*{\abstractname}%
		{\chapteralign\normalsize\abstractauthorfont \authorname \par}% Author name
		\vspace{\baselineskip}
		{\chapteralign\parbox{.7\linewidth}{\chapteralign\normalsize\itshape\abstracttitlefont\@title}\par}% Thesis title
		\bigskip\noindent\ignorespaces
	}%
	{}%end alt-abstract
}{%
	\DeclareDocumentEnvironment{abstract}{ O{\null\vfill} }{
		\checktoopen
		\tttypeout{\abstractname}
		#1%added to be able to have abstract more than one page long
		\thispagestyle{plain}
		\begin{center}
			{\normalsize \MakeUppercase{\univname} \par}% University name in capitals
			\bigskip
			{\huge\textit{\abstractname} \par}
			\bigskip
			{\normalsize \facname \par}% Faculty name
			{\normalsize \deptname \par}% Department name
			\bigskip
			{\normalsize \degreename\par}% Degree name
			\bigskip
			{\normalsize\bfseries \@title \par}% Thesis title
			\medskip
			{\normalsize \byname{} \authorname \par}% Author name
			\bigskip
		\end{center}
	}
	{
		\vfill\null
	}
}
\makeatother

Now you could start removing or changing.

Stefan