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
I sent a note about this a couple of months back; shouldn't what Idris (and I earlier) is proposing be standard behavior behavior? Block quotes are generally (though not always) part of a larger paragraph. Also, per earlier suggestion, there should be an option not to have them enclosed in quote marks. Bruce
\definestartstop [quote] [before={\medskip\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent}, after={\stopnarrower\medskip\noindent}] appears to do what I want. So if I skip a line after the stopquote I get the next line indented. Please feel free to make suggestions/improvements to this naive definition. For example, will this work after the beginning of a new section or will the \medskip add too much space?I still don't know how to verify which \skip the itemize environment uses, and I want my startstopquote to match the itemize skips. Best wishes Idris
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
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