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I'm trying to create the \epigraph shown in the picture. I want to place it at the bottom right of an empty page with the style shown in the picture. I'm using the code. How can I modify it to get what I want? I don't want a line between the quote and the source ... basically the style shown below.

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,mathabx}
\usepackage{epigraph}

\setlength\epigraphwidth{.8\textwidth}

\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\vspace*{\fill}
\epigraph{Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, ``and go on till you come to the end: then stop.''}{Lewis Carroll, \textit{Alice in Wonderland}}

\end{document}
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A solution consists in patching some epigraph internal commands, with the etoolbox package, so that the default font shape for the epigraph text be italic (in an upshape context):

    \documentclass[12pt]{book}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,mathabx}
    \usepackage{ebgaramond}
    \usepackage{epigraph}
    \renewcommand\textflush{flushright}

    \usepackage{etoolbox}
    \makeatletter
    \newlength\epitextskip
    \pretocmd{\@epitext}{\em}{}{}
    \apptocmd{\@epitext}{\em}{}{}
    \patchcmd{\epigraph}{\@epitext{#1}\\}{\@epitext{#1}\\[\epitextskip]}{}{}
    \makeatother

    \setlength\epigraphrule{0pt}
    \setlength\epitextskip{2ex}
    \setlength\epigraphwidth{.8\textwidth}

    \thispagestyle{empty}

    \begin{document}

    \vspace*{\fill}
    \epigraph{For the Snark \emph{was} a Boojum,  you see.}{Lewis Carroll, \emph{The Hunting of the Snark}
    }

    \end{document}

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All you need to add to your code is

\setlength\epigraphrule{0pt}

A complete example:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{epigraph}

\setlength\epigraphwidth{.8\textwidth}
\setlength\epigraphrule{0pt}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{\fill}
\epigraph{\itshape Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, ``and go on till you come to the end: then stop.''}{---Lewis Carroll, \textit{Alice in Wonderland}}

\end{document}

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  • it seems to me that "Begin at the beginning," needs to have quotes around it; otherwise the quote is disjointed. (i'm not familiar enough with epigraph to have any other comments. i was thrown off by the absence of a closing quote after "beginning," in the original question, thinking that maybe epigraph provided the "outside" quotes, but i think that's not the case.)
    – barbara beeton
    Jul 25, 2014 at 13:30
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Not the answer to your question, but a solution with KOMA-Script.

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Option 1:

\documentclass{scrbook}

\setkomafont{dictumtext}{\itshape\small}
\setkomafont{dictumauthor}{\normalfont}
\renewcommand*\dictumwidth{.75\linewidth}
\renewcommand*\dictumauthorformat[1]{--- #1}
\renewcommand*\dictumrule{}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{\fill}
\dictum[Lewis Carroll, \emph{Alice in Wonderland}]{Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, ``and go on till you come to the end: then stop.''}

\end{document}

Option 2:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{scrextend}

\setkomafont{dictumtext}{\itshape\small}
\setkomafont{dictumauthor}{\normalfont}
\renewcommand*\dictumwidth{.75\linewidth}
\renewcommand*\dictumauthorformat[1]{--- #1}
\renewcommand*\dictumrule{}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{\fill}
\dictum[Lewis Carroll, \emph{Alice in Wonderland}]{Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, ``and go on till you come to the end: then stop.''}

\end{document}

Option 3:

\documentclass{book}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\dictum}[2][]{\par%
  \begingroup
    \raggeddictum\parbox{\dictumwidth}{%
      {\@dictumfont{\raggeddictumtext #2\strut\par}%
        \def\@tempa{#1}\ifx\@tempa\@empty\else%
          {\raggeddictumtext\dictumrule}%
          \raggeddictumauthor\@dictumauthorfont\dictumauthorformat{#1}%
          \strut\par%
        \fi%
      }%
    }\par%
  \endgroup
}

\newcommand*{\dictumrule}{}
\newcommand*{\dictumwidth}{.75\textwidth}
\newcommand*{\raggeddictum}{\raggedleft}
\newcommand*{\dictumauthorformat}[1]{--- #1}
\newcommand*{\raggeddictumtext}{\raggedright}
\newcommand*{\raggeddictumauthor}{\raggedleft}
\newcommand*{\@dictumfont}{\itshape\small}
\newcommand*{\@dictumauthorfont}{\normalfont}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\vspace*{\fill}
\dictum[Lewis Carroll, \emph{Alice in Wonderland}]{Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, ``and go on till you come to the end: then stop.''}

\end{document}
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  • A downvote? I always prefer to ask or comment rather than downvote :)
    – Manuel
    Jul 25, 2014 at 12:18
  • The down-vote was mine, by accident :( After I posted ny answer I was in a hurry and I though I clicked the up-voting arrow in your answer, but ended up clicking the down-vote arrow. Now I try to reverse the down-vote but I get a message saying "You last voted on this answer 9 hours ago. Your vote is now locked in unless this answer is edited." Can you please edit the answer so I can correct my mistake?
    – Gonzalo Medina
    Jul 25, 2014 at 21:56
  • Done. I'm glad it was a mistake :)
    – Manuel
    Jul 26, 2014 at 8:25
  • Thanks. I've undone the down-vote, and corrected the mistake. I'll delete my comments in some hours.
    – Gonzalo Medina
    Jul 26, 2014 at 15:59
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    @GonzaloMedina We don't have the same notion of "Some hours"
    – Fabich
    May 28, 2017 at 21:30

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