From: Idris S Hamid <ishamid@attbi.com>
Subject: quote environment
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:38:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211111338.51030.ishamid@attbi.com> (raw)
Dear crew,
(Please forgive all the (perhaps) clueless questions: I've had to spend the
last few months focusing on _content_ in my research as opposed to _form_ so
I've gotten quite rusty:->)
I have defined a quote environment as follows:
\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent
Some quoted text
\stopnarrower
I would like to define a more sophisticated \startquote \stopquote with the
following features:
1. Assuming the quote is within a paragraph and is preceded and succeeded by
text belonging to that same paragraph, the skips preceding and succeeding
text should be the same as in the default itemize environment. Assuming
itemize uses \medskip (how do I find out for sure (aside from digging into
the code)?), I need the quote environment to do something like;
------------------------------------
Here is some preceding text
\medskip
%
\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent
Some quoted text
\stopnarrower
\medskip
%
Here is some succeeding text.
----------------------------------------
2. Assuming the quote is within a paragraph and is preceded and succeeded by
text belonging to that same paragraph, the succeeding text should NOT be
indented. viz.
----------------------------------------
Here is some preceding text
%
\startquote
Some quoted text
\stopquote
%
Here is some succeeding text that should NOT be indented
-----------------------------------------
3. Assuming the quote is at the _end_ of a paragraph, I need the quote
environment to do something like;
--------------------------------------
Here is some preceding text
\medskip
%
\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent
Some quoted text
\stopnarrower
\medskip
Here is some succeeding text that SHOULD be indented.
--------------------------------------
Note also that the first par in a quote environment should not be indented:
--------------------------------------
Here is some preceding text
%
\startquote
Some quoted text that should NOT be indented
Some quoted text that SHOULD be indented.
\stopquote
%
--------------------------------------
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Best wishes
Idris
--
Dr. Idris S Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
next reply other threads:[~2002-11-11 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-11 21:38 Idris S Hamid [this message]
2002-11-11 20:53 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-11-14 2:48 ` Idris S Hamid
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