Hi Gerben,

here is a solution that works with a local layout. For sure there are
better ways to reach your desired style, but I have no experience with
this stuff.

Greets, Peter


Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I am having a simple problem I can't solve by reading the manuals.
> 
> I want to quote a fragment of a book which contains amongst others a
> discussion (Plato's Protagoras to be precise). Normally, my book has no
> whitespace between paragraphs and small indentation, but here I want a
> small amount of whitespace between paragraphs and also narrower. I'd like
> to setup some form of quotation paragraph style to use. I started out with
> \startquotation but I do not want quotes, so now I use startnarrower, but
> what I need is a paragraph style. Maybe another font (1pt smaller) is nice
> too. And noindenting while the rest of the book uses indenting.
> 
> What I would like to do is something like
> 
> \startBookQuote
> \stopBookQuote
> 
> and on the inside I get a small whitespace between paragraphs, no
> indentation, a smaller font and a narrower textwidth.
> 
> My last try was:
> 
> \defineparagraphs[BookQuote][n=1,before={\indenting[never]\whitespace\startnarrower},after={\indenting[yes]\nowhitespace\stopnarrower}]
> 
> in my environment file, but that gave me page breaks as soon as
> \startBookQuote was given and the quotes themselves do not receive page
> breaks, hence a quote more than one page (I have a few) ends up being a
> column of one page but just running from the page.
> 
> So, it seems \defineparagraphs is out, because I do not get page breaks
> inside the quote. But what should I do?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> G
> 
> PS. any sight on a decent ConTeXt book, btw? The manuals and wiki seldomly
> give me answers that work for me and often I find ConTeXt rather
> counterintuitive, e.g. setupparagraphs for something that is a
> table/column kind of thing, or confusing (\define vs \setup vs rest)
> 
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