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I would like to insert some literature quotations in my thesis. My first thought was to modify the verse environment as demonstrated in another question, though the result is not so pleasing.
I would like each quotation to be in quotation marks, provide an easy way to attribute the source below the quotation and be right aligned.
If you’re using the KOMA-Script document classes, take a look at the \dictum command in the documentation – this does exactly what you want.
For example, to put a quotation in front of a chapter:
\setchapterpreamble{
\dictum[Anonymous]{Forecasting is the art of saying what is going to happen
and then to explain why it didn’t.}}
\chapter{Weather forecasting}
scrextend package - it is part of KOMA-script and also provides the \dictum command.
– lockstep
Sep 8 '10 at 22:50
report is scrreprt. Granted, the layout will not be preserved but changing the layout to anything you like is really easy once you’ve read the (quite short) introduction on layouting in the KOMA documentation.
– Konrad Rudolph
Sep 9 '10 at 7:32
report with scrreprt and my document compiled without any problem and only slight differences in the layout. The \setchapterpreamble worked as advertised though some googling showed up its equivalent for the standard classes the epigraph.
– Dimitris Leventeas
Sep 9 '10 at 8:32
