Putting a famous quote in LyX

Question

EDIT: By a comment below, I learned that what I'm asking is: How do I add an epigraph in the beginning of a section?

EDIT: I managed to use the epigraph package. I'm importing it in the LaTeX preable and in my document open a LaTeX red box and write: \epigraph{the quote}{the author}. It looks pretty much fine.

In LyX, I would like to add a famous

``If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.''

George Pólya

I'd like the whole thing to be slightly indented, and name "George Pólya" much more indented. Is there a standard way to do that? I tried the "Quotation" and "Quote" envionment, but they seem to slightly indent the whole paragraph, which is not exactly what I want.

(and, by the way, is this a good practice, or is there another way a quote should look like?)

Answer 1

You can use the epigraph package for this. The line width and other things can be customised according to the documentation.

\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\usepackage{epigraph}

\begin{document}

\epigraph{`If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.''}{George Pólya}

\end{document}

Note that if you are using the memoir class, it already includes a similar set of macros for epigraphs (in which case, read the memoir documentation for customisations).