Re: \quotation

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2524 bytes --]

2007/11/2, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>:
>
>
>
> 2007/11/1, Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu>:
> >
> > Dear gang,
> >
> > This has bugged me for years but I never said anything since the
> > workaround is so easy. OTOH I am working on something I'd like to share
> > with others and an official solution would be better:
> >
> > \starttext
> > \input knuth
> > \startquotation
> > \input knuth
> > \stopquotation
> > \input knuth
> > \stoptext
> >
> > I. \start-\stopquotation surrounds the block quote in double-quotes
> > marks.
> > I don't know about other European languages but in English this is
> > redundant; I've hardly ever seen block quotes use dbl-quote marks.
> >
> > We at least need a setup option to turn this off.
> >
> > II. There should be some default whitespace between the block quote and
> > the surrounding text, just as \start-stopitemize has. Or at least this
> > should be configurable in the setups.
> >
> > If these two are already there (not in the manual) then please let us
> > know
> > how to set this up. Otherwise could you add configuration options for
> > this?
> >
> > FYI: Here is what I use
> >
> > ===========
> > \definestartstop
> >    [quote]
> >    [before={\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\blank[big]\noindenting},
> >      after={\stopnarrower\blank[big]}]
> > ===========
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Idris
>
>
> Hi Idris,
>
> there is no perfect solution in ConTeXt because the \quotation and the
> \start/stopquotation commands are defined with the same definition and it
> is
> not possible to disable the quote marks for the one and enable it for the
> other,
> but you can use ConTeXt's mechanism for nested quotations and redefine the
> other one.
>
> \setupdelimitedtext
>   [quotation]
>   [1]
>   [left={\symbol[leftquotation]},
>    right={\symbol[rightquotation]}]
>
> \setupdelimitedtext
>   [quotation]
>   [2]
>   [left={\symbol[leftquote]},
>    right={\symbol[rightquote]}]
>
> \setupdelimitedtext
>   [quote]
>   [location=margin, % paragraph
>    left=,
>    right=,
>    before={\blank[big]},
>    after={\blank[big]}]
>

This can also be written as

\setupdelimitedtext
  [quote]
  [location=margin, % paragraph
   left=,
   right=,
   spacebefore=big,
   %spaceafter=big, % spaceafter is spacebefore by default
  ]

\starttext
>
> \input knuth
>
> \quotation{I'm a quoteted text \quotation{within another quoteted text}
> and back.}
>
> \startquote
> \input knuth
> \stopquote
>
> \input knuth
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
>

[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 3600 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 487 bytes --]

___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive  : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________