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I am trying to make a quotation environment as picture below.
The environment is indented the same as \parindent on each side, the environment is automatically italic, and you can put the person and the date in brackets not in italics.
I don't have an MWE since I'm not really sure where to start. I guess it's something to do with \newinvironment, but I've never used that before.
Could someone help please? Thanks in advance.
The quoting package is very useful, together with a trick found in the TeXbook (look for Bourbaki in the index).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{quoting,xparse}
\NewDocumentCommand{\bywhom}{m}{% the Bourbaki trick
{\nobreak\hfill\penalty50\hskip1em\null\nobreak
\hfill\mbox{\normalfont(#1)}%
\parfillskip=0pt \finalhyphendemerits=0 \par}%
}
\NewDocumentEnvironment{pquotation}{m}
{\begin{quoting}[
indentfirst=true,
leftmargin=\parindent,
rightmargin=\parindent]\itshape}
{\bywhom{#1}\end{quoting}}
\begin{document}
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
\begin{pquotation}{Jack Johnson, 2003}
`This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation.'
\end{pquotation}
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
\begin{pquotation}{Jack Johnson, 2003}
`This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation. This is a quotation.
This is a quotation. This is a quotation.'
\end{pquotation}
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
This is not a quotation, this is normal text.
\end{document}
Here's a solution based on the csquotes package:
\documentclass{memoir}
% filler text:
\newcommand\lipx{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit,
vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae,
felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris. Nam
arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id,
vulputate a, magna.}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\SetBlockThreshold{2}
\newcommand\myblockquote[2]{%
\blockquote{\hspace*{2em}\emph{`#1'}\hfill(#2)}\par}
\begin{document}
\lipx\ \lipx
\myblockquote{\lipx}{Jack Johnson, 2003}
\lipx\ \lipx
\end{document}
\hfill is used as a line break point, whence the name will be flush left.
– egreg
Sep 16 '17 at 20:50
quoteand aquotationenvironment, with slightly different formats, and one of them might be exactly what you want. The simplest way to get the attribution at the right margin is just to put\hfillin front of it - though if you have a lot of quotes and you need to automatically handle the situation where the attribution needs to go on a separate line because it won't fit on the last line of the quote, you might want a more sophisticated alternative. If so, ask another question just about that. – alephzero Sep 16 '17 at 19:45quotingpackage. Another posssibility: theepigraphpackage. – Bernard Sep 16 '17 at 20:02