{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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How to avoid citations being placed on a new line when \blockcquote ends with a list?
When csquotes's \blockquote and displaycquote ends with a list the citation is put on the next line after the list rather than directly after the last list item. Can one force csquotes to place the ...
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Language sensitive italicized quotation with csquotes
In what follows:
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt]{book}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\frenchbsetup{IndentFirst=false}
\begin{document}
text ...
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Quotations spanning multiple paragraphs in csquotes
I have a quotation which extends for multiple paragraphs. The literary convention is that there is no end-quote at the end of each paragraph, except for the last one.
However, this seems to be ...
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“Inspirational” quote at start of chapter
I recall seeing a package to make quotes like that of the following image at the start of a chapter, but I can't seem to find it again.
(This image is from the book Combinatorics and Graph Theory ...
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One more time: leading before and after block quotes
I'm trying to re-define the quote environment (triggered by csquote's \blockquote) to remove the entire (!) additional leading before and after the quote, to make sure the quotes stays in sync with ...
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How to put a quotation box wrapped in text?
What is the easiest way to put a box for quotation wrapped within text as we do for figure with wrapfig. Like half-sized box of text in magazines. I am trying float, but I am not sure if it is the ...
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How to create a 'fact box' or pull quote that is tied to the margins of your page?
I'd like to accomplish the following:
Ut convallis libero in -------------------
urna ultrices accumsan. | |
Donec sed odio eros. | "an important |
Donec viverra mi quis ...
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How can I make LaTeX number my quotes
I would like to number the quotations that appear in my document. I like what LaTeX does with the equation environment, and would like something similar, so that if I had typed
\begin{quote}
Quote ...
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\newtoks token seems to have local scope
I want to collect the first line of a quotation to use later. I have used \newtoks for a similar purpose so tried it here, this way:
\documentclass[12pt] {article}
\newtoks{\qfirstlineinternal}
...
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votes
4answers
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How to create “local” footnotes in block quotes?
I have a block quote, which contains a footnote - but I don't want to put that at the end of the page, but rather at the end of the quote. Like so:
Does footnote command allow this kind of ...
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Change the font of the block quote?
Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I can't find the right way of doing this.
I want to redefine my quote and quotation commands to use a different font. My main font is Linux Libertine O (I am using ...
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Macro for handling placement of last quotation mark when setting quotes in text?
When including quotes in a text, there are some styles that need to be adhered to. One style is to always place the last quote where the actual quote ends, no matter the next character (e.g. ... and ...
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Redefining quote environment with tiny font and double quote signs?
I want to redefine the quote environment in such a way to get the output of the following code.
\begin{quote}{\tiny\textquotedblleft Text \textquotedblright}\end{quote}
I also want to fix the line ...
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How do you create pull quotes?
Does anyone know a package for pull quotes?
Failing that, is anyone interested in writing a command to create one? I'm thinking of something that would have optional and configurable separators ...
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Highlight passages from the body as quotes between the paragraphs
In newspaper and magazine articles, striking messages from the main text are often highlighted in form of quotes in larger font size, sometimes also set apart by a bold rule or so. For an article I am ...
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What's the advantage of using csquotes over using an editor's auto-replacement for "?
Many editors (TeXnicCenter, Texmaker, TeXworks, ...) offer auto-replacement of " by the desired form of quotation marks, be it `` and '' for English, "` and "' for German, or whatnot. Usually, I know ...
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How can I reduce the space between paragraphs and block quotes?
I'm using the mla package from the texlive-humanities ubuntu package to format an MLA-style paper. Unfortunately, something is a little off, and there's a little extra space between paragraphs and the ...
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Problems with quoting package and renewing quotation environment
Following this How to modify spacing around quotation environment?
...I have tried to use both given solutions (using quoting package and renewing quotation environment). I cannot use quoting package ...
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How can I indent a block of text for a specified amount? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Indenting a whole paragraph
Write text with some fixed amount of space from the margin
I would like to indent a paragraph or two for a specific amount.
The quote ...
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Adding an open-quote mark to the start of each line in a multiline quotation?
I'm going to be re-typesetting some old books (from the late 18th Century) in the coming weeks, and a few of them are old enough that they use an archaic typographic convention for quotation: every ...
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3answers
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Indenting long citations inside a document?
This question led to a new feature in a package:
quoting
Suppose I have a very long sentence of law text that I need to have in my document.
And according to the XYZ law:
Aaaaaa aoe oa ao ...
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Redefining the quote environment
Can somebody tell me what is wrong with this:
%%Tweaked quote environment
\let\origquote\quote
\renewenvironment{\quote}{%
\vspace{-0.5\parskip}
\origquote
}%
{\endorigquote}
My goal is to ...
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Make all \begin{quote} … \end{quote} blocks single spaced with setspace? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reduce the space between a quotation and a title
I am writing a double-spaced paper using the setspace package. I need quotations to be formatted with single spacing, ...
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votes
2answers
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Reduce the space between a quotation and a title
When I use the quotation environment at the start of a section I get too much space between the title and the start of the quotation. How to modify spacing around quotation environment? has ways to ...
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4answers
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Formatting new environment with borders
I have defined myself a new environment as below:
\newenvironment{myquote}{\list{}{\leftmargin=0.3in\rightmargin=0.3in}\item[]}{\endlist}
What I would like to do here is to be able to format this ...
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Issue with \newenvironment and framed and quotation
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newenvironment{nb}
{\begin{framed}\begin{quotation}}
{\end{framed}\end{quotation}}
\begin{document}
\begin{nb}
...
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What's the difference between the environments quote and quotation?
On meta, I've found the disscussion {quotation} and {quote}, but it doesn't answer my question.
When should I use the environment quote? When quotation?
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Align Quote to right
I want to align
\begin{quote}
Text
Author (\cite{Source})
\end{quote}
to the right side of the paper. How can I do this?
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3answers
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Line spacing inside quote environment
I use the setspace package to set double spacing throughout the document. It also sets double spacing inside the quote environment. But, I want one half space inside the quote environment. How can ...
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2answers
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How to modify spacing around quotation environment?
I am almost there in my quest to reproduce the rather compact layout of the book I'm translating... one thing to go, though:
I successfully used the enumitem package to modify the vertical and ...
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0answers
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Quote style like on owni.eu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Block quote with big quotation marks
How can I reproduce with TikZ the quoting style from Owni.eu
http://owni.fr/2011/09/13/increvable-droit-dauteur/ in a environment?
...
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Automatic noindent after quote environment
I need to include block quotes in my thesis, and the line following should not be indented. I am using the memoir class with XeLaTeX.
For example the following code:
\begin{quote}
Lorem Ipsum Dolor
...
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How to change paragraph separation to indent within blockquote (csquotes)
I am using the package csquotes to generate a blockquote. csquotes inserts what looks like half a blank line between the paragraphs within the quote.
I would prefer to have no vertical space but an ...
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votes
1answer
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Quote environment with long reference at the end right – without widows
I need a quote-environment to end with source-references in a new line, flush right.
Simply using
\begin{quote}
QUOTED TEXT
\begin{flushright}
SOURCE
\end{flushright}
\end{quote}
...
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How to resize a line with the text height with TikZ?
I made a new style of quoting. But I have to put the line height and width of the quote manually. Someone have a solution for make a environment with just 2 or 3 parameters? The quote, the author ...
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votes
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How to Spell-Check LaTeX in multiple languages / language variants
I am writing a PhD Thesis / Dissertation and would like to be able to spell-check the thing. The problem is that I'm required to write it in UK English, while many of my quotations are written in US ...
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Is it possible to make automatic multiple citations with csquotes and biblatex?
I'm using csquotes package with biblatex. There is a number of citations that require multiple references, which can be introduced with the \autocites command --- e.g. second hand citations (“cited ...
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End quotes and punctuation when using biblatex
This seems like a rudimentary question but I haven't been able to find a clear answer. The cultural context in question is American English.
When putting citations in footnotes in biblatex (I'm using ...
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votes
2answers
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Custom quotation style which depends on length of quotation
I am writing my PhD-thesis and I need to meet certain formatting requirements in regard to quotations. I know there is the quote environment. But in this conditions it doesn't match my universities ...
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votes
1answer
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microtype protrusion incompatible quote, changemargin and adjustwidth environments
Here is my problem. I need some text to have a reduced margin. Unfortunately, none of the suggested methods of doing this appear to be compatible with microtype protrusion. Is this a bug? Is there a ...
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votes
1answer
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Block quoting with big quotes on all the width of the page
the following code (source) is very pretty but I would like the text quoted to occupy all the width of the page.
How can I achieve this ?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
...
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Block quote with big quotation marks
How can I create a block quote enviroment with big quotation marks similar to the Cquote Template of Wikipedia?
Additionally it would be nice to place both quotation marks and quote in a colored box ...
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votes
1answer
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Big Decorative Quotes
I want to make some definition in my thesis very clear, by putting it in its own line, with stylish, decorative (or whatever you call it) quotes. How can I do that in Latex?
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votes
3answers
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Avoiding orphans at the start of quote/quotation environments
To me, orphans -- page breaks after the first line of a paragraph -- are tolerable in the normal text body, and so I leave TeX's default settings (\clubpenalty=150) alone. On the other hand, I want to ...
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Quote environment with reference at the end right
I want to define a quote environment such that after the quote on the right occurs the author with page number. My solution is yet the redefinition of the quote environment
\usepackage{amsthm} % ...
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Microtype and quote environment leads to different indent of first line
When the microtype package is loaded a quote environment which starts with punctuation marks is inconsistent "indented". The first line in the following minimal example is unaffected, i.e. at the same ...
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Automatically add quotes
I would like to create a new environment which will behave similar to quote, but with quotes added. I tried something like this:
...
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Quotation with double quote and O results in Ö
I have an issue with the double quote in my quotation.
Using "OpenGL....." results in ÖpenGL... even with \"OpenGL... the result is the same.
Using \verb results in double quotes in a wrong font ...
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Nice citation search in emacs for csquotes quotation (like reftex's C-c [)
When using emacs+reftex-mode I may hit "C-c [" and get a nice citation search menu for \cite command. Is there a way to get the same menu for csquotes' integrated quotations (e.g. \displaycquote)?
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Place quotation (dictum) in a box
Background
Looking to change the appearance of quotations at the start of each Chapter (or Part). The book is using KOMA Script v2. (Most searches for the quote command come back with results for ...
