ClassicThesis: "Part" titlepage structure

Question

Calling all ClassicThesis users, I need a tweak for my PhD thesis. I want to add some text (a quote) in the titlepage of each Part, before the part number and title, and keep the short description after it as well. The relevant block of code in classicthesis.sty is

\newcommand{\ct@parttext}{\relax}
\newcommand{\ctparttext}[1]{\renewcommand{\ct@parttext}{#1 \relax}} 
\titleformat{\part}[display]
    {\normalfont\centering\large}
    {\thispagestyle{empty}\partname~\MakeTextUppercase{\thepart}}{1em}
    {\color{Maroon}\spacedallcaps}[\bigskip\normalfont\normalsize\color{Black}\begin{quote}\ct@parttext \end{quote}]

How do I edit it to create two boxes of text, one before and one after the part title? Changing the definition of \ctparttext seems like a terrible idea here...

Answer 1

I think you need to do two things:

• Define a new set of commands (based on \ctparttext) to "hold" your quotation.
• Modify the titleformat for part to use them, again by analogy to the existing definition.

---

\makeatletter
   \def\ct@partquotekeep{\relax}
   \def\ct@partquoteprint{\ct@partquotekeep\gdef\ct@partquotekeep{\relax}}
   \newcommand{\ctpartquote}[1]{\renewcommand{\ct@partquotekeep}{#1}} 
   \titleformat{\part}[display]
        {\color{Black}\begin{quote}\normalfont\normalsize\ct@partquoteprint\end{quote}\bigskip\ct@altfont\centering\large}
        {\thispagestyle{empty}\normalfont\partname~\MakeTextUppercase{\thepart}}{1em}
        {\color{CTtitle}\spacedallcaps}[\bigskip\normalfont\normalsize\color{Black}\begin{quote}\ctparttext@print \end{quote}]
    \makeatother

This is now used as follows:

\ctpartquote{What could be more precious than a lovely quotation for your Part.

\hfill --- \textsc{famous author}}
\ctparttext{This is the part text. This is the part text. This is the part text.}

\part{Part One}

Result: