Re: [NTG-context] long quotation without quotation marks

4 Sep 2009

      On Fri, Sep 4, 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote
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On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Robert Blackstone wrote:
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Hi all,
In a text with some fairly long quotations I want to have these
quotations
without their quotation marks, not indented and set in small type.
To make context ignore indenting of a signle paragraph, use
\noindentation.
delimited text does not offer control of indentation inside the
environment, but offers sufficient hooks to enable manipulation of
indentations.
If you want paragraphs inside the quotation to be indented use the
following (if not, replace noindentation with noindenting)
\definedelimitedtext[LongQuote]
                    [style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]},
                     spacebefore=medium,
                     before=\noindentation, % also \noindenting,
                   ]
\setupindenting[big,yes]
\starttext
\input ward
\startLongQuote
  \input knuth \par
\stopLongQuote
\input ward
\stoptext
Aditya
Thank you Aditya, it helped. It was: before=\noindenting that did what I
wanted.

Surprisingly for me, in the example you gave, before=\noindentation resulted
in no indentation for the first paragraph but the two others were indented.
With before=\noindenting all three paragrapghs were unindented. I really
couldn’t have guessed this.

With some slight changes your example did almost exactly what I had in mind.
(Almost, since in a text like this I would prefer some space between the
paragraphs and I understand that it cannot be adjusted locally.)
Just for the sake of completeness I add it here:

\definedelimitedtext[LongQuote]
                    [style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]},
                     spacebefore=medium,
                     before=\noindenting
                   ]

\setupindenting[big,yes]

\starttext

\input ward
\startnarrower
\startLongQuote
  \input knuth \par
\stopLongQuote
\stopnarrower
\input ward

\stoptext

I have two related questions for the list:
a. Would it be useful to add this information to the ConTeXt wiki page on
Quotes?

b. Is there a complete and up to date list of commands for ConTeXt, and what
they are supposed to do, to be found somewhere? (I find things like the
existence of \noindent, \noindenting and \noindentation, all apparently
giving slightly different results, nice for the variety it offers but, for a
beginner, quite confusing  as well.)

Kind regards,

Robert Blackstone