Re: \startquotation, \cite and footnotes

[Oliver Buerschaper <oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de>]

>> Ok. As for the strange things happening I was able to hunt them down
>> and prepare a simple example (still with the standard  
>> \startquotation):
>
> We are looking into this. All footnotes in vertical mode are
> behaving oddly.

Thanks!

>> I tried that one but ran into several problems unfortunately. If
>> \cite inserts anything but a tiny string these words won't be wrapped
>> properly onto a new line. Also if I replace \cite[#1] by \footnote
>> {\cite[#1]} then there will be no footnote at all :-(
>
> The missing linebreak is probably realted to the problem as in the
> other thread, so you just have to wait a little bit longer, until that
> is fixed for this problem to magically go away as well.

Yep, I'll be waiting for some black magic ;-)

> The disappearing footnote may be unfixable within \startquotation. It
> would be easier to define your own start-stop pair for this, because
> \startquotation ... \stopquotation doesn't actually support tacking on
> stuff at the end. Try this instead:
>
>    \long\def\startcitedquotation[#1]#2\stopcitedquotation
>        {\bgroup \par
>         \startnarrower
>           \symbol[leftquotation]%
>           #2\removeunwantedspaces
>           \symbol[rightquotation]%
>           \cite[#1]
>         \stopnarrower
>         \par \egroup}

Works like a charm! Thanks very much for the workaround ... I've  
adapted it slightly so that the optional argument is treated as  
generic text ... in order to use \cite[], \footnote{\cite[]} or  
whatever else I need.

Could this optional argument perhaps be integrated directly in the  
usual \startquotation command some day? I guess a lot of people will  
need this ... every quotation calls for a proper reference ;-)

Cheers,
Oliver