Re: Hello world title not flush left - beginner question?

[Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:33:48PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
> How is a framedtext more logical than a dictum or epigraph environment,
> with my solution you can also change the definition of the code to place
> the epigraph format without any change in the text while your framed text
> is always a framedtext (I know you can avoid this with a named framedtext)
> and changes to the layout require more work.
> 

Thanks for the explanation.

It is not too logical, however, to define a dictum or epigraph *before* the start of a new section or chapter. An author does not really think this way. Of course, it is logical to define a dictum or epigraph environment that can be used as in:

\startchapter [title=Chapter title]

\startepigraph
\input ward
\stopepigraph

\stopchapter


It is indeed overkill to use a buffer as in your example. However, there may be a very good reason to more closely tie the epigraph to the typesetting of the chapter title. I could then see something like:

\startchapter [title={Chapter title},epigraph={\input ward}]

although I'm sure that the above (untested) syntax would cause problems
with \input... (and probably a \par would be needed somewhere).

Alan
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