{quoting} is about environments like quote and quotation which set text blocks off by indenting them. Popular packages are {quoting} and {csquotes}. For questions about quotation marks, choose {punctuation} instead.
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Dedication and Quote in my thesis [closed]
I want to dedicate my master thesis to my parents, my brother and my sister. Additionally, I want to include a famous quote.
My first question is about the grammar, since I am not native english ...
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Inhibit indentation in paragraph after using the “quoting” package
A little while ago I asked this questions concerning how to quote in the style of "quotation" but without the first paragraph being indented. The answer I got was to use the quoting package instead of ...
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Quoting styles, technical an appreciation questions
I know there has been some questions about the quote style, I loved the one with the big quote marks. What I'm trying to achieve it's a little simpler.
Right now I have something like this:
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Inhibit indentation of first paragraph of quotation
I'm using LyX. Would it be possible to format something as "quotation" in a way in which the first paragraph doesn't get indented but the subsequent paragraphs does, like the way in which text ...
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Changing the vertical spacing before and after the quoting environment when using parskip
I'm working with the quoting environment but I can't figure out how to adjust the vertical space before and after it. I would like the environment to be indented on either side like it is but not have ...
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How to use the pullquote package on a two-column layout? [closed]
I've been reading about pull quotes. In this question, a great answer is posted with a link to a custom package called pullquote.
I've installed this package and have been trying to make it work, as ...
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How to change quotation symbols and define them in language (in Context)? [closed]
To get guillemets (», angle quotes) at quotations in my Swedish text I have used the following code with Context mkII:
\setupdelimitedtext[quotation:1][left=»\nobreak,right=\nobreak»]
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How to quote correctly with csquotes?
I am unsure how to quote correctly using csquotes and \textquote and \blockquote. In the documentation I found this general advise: \blockquote[cite][punct]{text}tpunct but am unsure how to really use ...
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Vertical spacing below block quote should be retained even if footnote follows
In my text, block quotes have noticeable vertical spacing from the text above and below. When there is a footnote, this property is violated; I would like to restore it. (And I think this formatting ...
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Ellipsis without brackets — fine tuning
Very much related to this question and its answer, I would like to ask the following:
If I want to indicate omissions in a quotation not by using Text [...] more text. but instead by using Text ... ...
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Dedicated symbol for […] in quotations?
I would like to use [...] in quotations to indicate a part which was not included. Just entering [...] does not render it perfectly in my opinion. Is there a special way of inputing said symbol? ...
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new quote-based environment end spacing [closed]
In order to insert quotations, the document uses a quote-based \newenvironmentx
\newenvironmentx{QUOTE}[1][1=.]{%
\begin{quote}%
\tiny\noindent%
\gdef\parQ{#1}``%
}{\parQ''%
\normalsize%
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How to force csquotes to show the quotations marks in block quotes?
How can I force the csquotes package to always show quotations marks in my block quotes, regardless of the language etc...?
Tried this, but no cigar:
\usepackage{csquotes}[english=british] % ...
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Define a command for italic, bold and centered title inside a quote
Inside my quote, I have a bold, italic and centered header. How can I define a command so that I can typeset this text all in one go? I tried:
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Why does Context line-break my quotation and leave the quotation sign on it's own row?
Using Context to set a book I have the following problem: Context linebreaks some quotations in a way that makes the quotation sign (in my case a guillemet [sic!]) appear on its own row. How can i ...
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Block quote in figure caption
I need to put a multi-line quote in a figure caption. I've put code together that does this correctly if I override several errors, but I'd like the document to compile without errors.
The code:
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Problem with quote redefinition and packages? [closed]
I got a problem (probably simple), but I dont really see how to explain it with a MWE.
So I'm trying to modify my quote environment. I entered the following line in my preamble :
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Right aligning a quote with extra indentation
I want to insert a quote into a document, have it aligned to the right, italic, with some extra indentation from the right margin, this is what i've managed so far:
\documentclass{book}
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Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom
I wanted to adapt Block quote with big quotation marks to languages like my natural language German, but also some other mainly Germanic and Slavic languages (c.f. Wikipedia: Non-English usage of ...
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Put quote in new page if it does not fit
I have a \begin{quote} ... \end{quote} which I would not like to be broken in separate pages. So if it's at the end of a page and there's not enough space, it would go into a new page automatically. ...
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Smaller font size in quote environment relative to context
I want to have all quotes in the quote-environment in a smaller font. This is possible with the etoolbox-package and the command:
\AtBeginEnvironment{quote}{\small}
But if I use a quote-environment ...
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Quotes problem in beamer
I'm trying to make nice big quotes work in my presentation, but there is some error, a clashing of packages I assume, and I don't know how to resolve this :\
So my mwe is here:
%&latex
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Custom quote formatting [closed]
I have a .cls in which I have quite a bit of formatting... I'm trying to make a way of making my own "quote" formatting. I need to format my quotes centered, with a limited width for each line, and ...
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protrusion issue - pdftex bug, microtype bug or LaTeX bug?
While finishing an article for TUGboat I came across a strange behavior of the protrusion mechanism of pdfTeX (as implemented by the microtype package). The character \ in typewriter has a negative ...
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Letter in quotation
I want to put entire letter as a quotation in text (which is a book), something similar to what you get with quotation enviroinment, but preserving positions of adress etc. How to do this?
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Problem With Spacing and Quotation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to modify spacing around quotation environment?
I am using \begin{quote} text \end{quote} to provide quotation in a .tex document. However, once the document is ...
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wrapfigures and quote environment not working together
I want to have a figure floating next to a block quote. So I used the wrapfig package and the quote environment.
If you typeset the following example, you will see that the figure is printed on the ...
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\begin{citacao} abntex top and bottom margin [closed]
How can I remove the top and bottom margin of the citacao item in abntex? It currently looks like this image:
I need it to have just a single space between lines.
The abntex implementation is
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Non-italic quote in the quote environment
Any idea how to produce a quote in the quote environment that's not italicized (using LyX)? I'm trying to create a presentation in beamer and can't seem to figure it out.
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setspace and quoting environment result in superfluous empty line
I was trying to set up the quoting environment by the package of the same name, which included single line spacing for block quotes as opposed to one and a half line spacing for normal text. The ...
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«» resemble too much \ll \gg
I am typesetting a translation of some ancient poetry book from another language (namely Finnish). In the text there are several quotes which uses the Guillemets (« and »).
Since I am using a UTF-8 ...
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How do you end with a single quote followed by a double quote?
I have a paragraph as follows:
``This is a quote. `Here is a quote within a quote.'''
But the formatting works out to be a double quote (") followed by a single quote (') instead of the other way ...
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How to display the same text in various parts of the document?
In a long, long, long writing. I have a piece of text that repeats in several places/sections/chapters. When I'm editing, I change 2 or 3 words in that piece of text. The changes have to be applied to ...
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Problem with space in chapter and quotes
I'm having problems with a ezthesis.
1- This is my fourth chapter and only in this one, my header (Example, Nº4) starts near to the middle of the page, when the other starts near the top.
2- I use ...
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Strange chapter influence on quotation environment
The code below give a strange result when I comment out the \begingroup end \endgroup: the quotation environment has different vertical space to the text before ("Some text").
What is it that chapter ...
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fixed distance and no page break between lines
I'm trying to make a quotation environment which puts the quote on a gray background, with a colored rule right on top of it:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{color}
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Block quote with big quotations - white on black
There is are some very nice answers to the question of how to put large quotation marks around a block of text at Block quote with big quotation marks. Using the first answer (which uses tikz) but ...
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Beautiful quotes in documentclass article [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Inspirational” quote at start of chapter
I'm using \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}. How to do this beautiful quote by using \renewenvironment{quote} ...
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How to force latex to put a quote in one line?
I am currently writing a CV on LaTeX. I want to have a quote on the head of my modernCV, but latex puts ONE word into a second line. Can I make LaTeX put all the quote into one line?
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Handling quotes inside quotes in a bibliographic field
I have an entry in my bib file of the form
@conference{abc,
author = "Some name",
title = ""This is inside quote" and outside quote content",
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.
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}
when I check this entry through jabref, I get ...
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Can I create one command for quoting?
I would like to get this result:
I currently use this piece to get the result:
\glqq{\textit{Analysis II}}\grqq{}
Can I create a single command like the following to get the desired result?
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“direct” quotations and “entire paragraph” quotations
I need two types of citations which I have not figured out how to define:
(see highlighted in grey)
1) As Owens stated (2008, p.97), ‘the value of...’
2) Simone de Beauvoir (1972, p.365) ...
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Three quotation levels for csquotes
The recommended way of solving nested quotations in Norwegian is to use «» for the outer level and then alternating between ‘’ and “”. (Source)
Is it a large undertaking to do this with csquotes?
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\quote{} in IEEETrans misaligns following text
I'm writing my LaTeX document using the IEEE LaTeX template.
I sometimes use the \quote{some text here} command to block quote a single paragraph. It tabs the text one to the right.
Unfortunately ...
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Quotes with speech balloons
I looking for a way to do that with TikZ :
But I have no idea how to do this quote style.
\begin{sballoonquote}{\linewidth}{r}{color}{Donald Knuth}
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
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Inserting a quote onto the (otherwise blank) left-hand-side page of a book [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Add a quote to a blank page centered
I am writing a thesis in \documentclass{book}. I wish to insert a quote on the blank page that comes after my preface and before my ...
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Numbered, hanging paragraph without list environment
I often quote text (legal sources). Normally I use the quoting-package and csquotes (block quote).
Often, the quotation contains some lists, and often with a non-standard numbering (f. ex. § 4-1(a)), ...
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Biblatex: Automatic *Vgl.* & automatic quote indenting (depending on quote length)
Is it possible to create a command that:
Whenever it exceeds a certain number of lines in the output (preferably 3), it will be typeset indented.
The citation will automatically be typeset without ...
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Automating quoting across LaTeX documents
I occasionally face the following situation when writing LaTeX documents. (This question is probably not LaTeX specific, though). Suppose I have a document, say orig.tex. Then I quote from that ...
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What kind of dash is used before a quote attribution?
In this quote example:
“Planning your video is the first step.”
-Christine Cloud, Producer
Should the name be preceded by an em dash, or a swung dash?
