Dear crew, (Please forgive all the (perhaps) clueless questions: I've had to spend the last few months focusing on _content_ in my research as opposed to _form_ so I've gotten quite rusty:->) I have defined a quote environment as follows: \startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent Some quoted text \stopnarrower I would like to define a more sophisticated \startquote \stopquote with the following features: 1. Assuming the quote is within a paragraph and is preceded and succeeded by text belonging to that same paragraph, the skips preceding and succeeding text should be the same as in the default itemize environment. Assuming itemize uses \medskip (how do I find out for sure (aside from digging into the code)?), I need the quote environment to do something like; ------------------------------------ Here is some preceding text \medskip % \startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent Some quoted text \stopnarrower \medskip % Here is some succeeding text. ---------------------------------------- 2. Assuming the quote is within a paragraph and is preceded and succeeded by text belonging to that same paragraph, the succeeding text should NOT be indented. viz. ---------------------------------------- Here is some preceding text % \startquote Some quoted text \stopquote % Here is some succeeding text that should NOT be indented ----------------------------------------- 3. Assuming the quote is at the _end_ of a paragraph, I need the quote environment to do something like; -------------------------------------- Here is some preceding text \medskip % \startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent Some quoted text \stopnarrower \medskip Here is some succeeding text that SHOULD be indented. -------------------------------------- Note also that the first par in a quote environment should not be indented: -------------------------------------- Here is some preceding text % \startquote Some quoted text that should NOT be indented Some quoted text that SHOULD be indented. \stopquote % -------------------------------------- Your help is greatly appreciated! Best wishes Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523