Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ Abstract design

[Seanshine]

Dear readers,

I am working with the MastersDoctoralThesis.cls in which an abstract page has been designed. However, I would like the abstract to be positioned on the title page, but I have been unable to realize this. Any help on this issue would be appreciated.

[Johannes_B]

Hi Sean, you really should read an introduction and the material i already linked before.

I want to change the layout of predefined abstract/declaration/etc. page?

Don't bother redefining class definitions. Just do what you would do if you would not use the class.

The title page is made up using the titlepage environment. Simply add the abstract on the title page where you need it.
Please also have a look at Title creation and How to customize my title page.

[Seanshine]

Hi Johannes_B,

One of the recommendation is to leave the .cls file unchanged, as if it was not there. However, he problem is that when I start

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\begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract}

, it uses the predefined abstract-design as in the .cls file, such that it leaves no room for customization.

Thanks!

[Johannes_B]

You shalt not use the abstract environment, but write the abstract as normal text within the titlepage environment.

How hard is that?

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\begin{titlepage}
Your name
Your title
Your abstract\end{titlepage}