On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:33:48PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
How is a framedtext more logical than a dictum or epigraph environment, with my solution you can also change the definition of the code to place the epigraph format without any change in the text while your framed text is always a framedtext (I know you can avoid this with a named framedtext) and changes to the layout require more work.
Thanks for the explanation. It is not too logical, however, to define a dictum or epigraph *before* the start of a new section or chapter. An author does not really think this way. Of course, it is logical to define a dictum or epigraph environment that can be used as in: \startchapter [title=Chapter title] \startepigraph \input ward \stopepigraph \stopchapter It is indeed overkill to use a buffer as in your example. However, there may be a very good reason to more closely tie the epigraph to the typesetting of the chapter title. I could then see something like: \startchapter [title={Chapter title},epigraph={\input ward}] although I'm sure that the above (untested) syntax would cause problems with \input... (and probably a \par would be needed somewhere). Alan