Questions tagged [quotation]
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Shaded quotation environment: the shading goes on top of figures
I use this solution to get a shaded quotation environment---and it works marvelously, except when the quotation is to the side of a wrapfigure'd image. In such a scenario, the shading sits on top of ...
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How to horizontally center a left aligned quotation text on the page?
I'm looking for a simple solution (without adding a new package, if possible) to horizontally center a quotation on the page. Here's a MWE to show my issue:
\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\...
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How to customize the quote environment?
I'm trying to customize the quote environment for a novel (citations at the beginning of each chapter), and I'm having troubles in setting custom vertical line spacing, horizontal line length, the ...
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Redefine quotation environment to remove initial indent
The default LaTeX quotation environment starts each paragraph with an indentation. I prefer for a multi-paragraph block quote not to indent the first paragraph (as recommended by the Chicago Manual of ...
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How can I get a double right quotation mark that behaves as any other exponent in math mode?
How could I have a ” symbol in math-mode that behaves as any other character? This was already kind of asked here. However, egreg solution doesn't completely work. With their code, if I type ``{\xi&...
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Having All Paragraphs in a Customized Quote Environment Appear as Description Items
This post asks for an extension of the answer given here: Putting a Description Environment within a Newcommand Quote Environment
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[...
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Putting a Description Environment within a Newcommand Quote Environment
MWE:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\textwidth=3.00in
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{cabin}
\newcommand{\longemdash}{{\fontfamily{cmss}\selectfont---}}
\newcommand{\emdash}{\nobreak---\...
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Redefine quote environment to avoid splitting on page breaks
For my LaTeX book i use the following code for quotes:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openright]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb,amsfonts,tkz-linknodes}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\...
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How to use quotation marks in ConTeXt?
I want to quote something in ConTeXt, but the typical LaTeX syntax is producing the wrong result.
\starttext
``Get off my lawn!'' yelled the old man.
\stoptext
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Index : list with repeating words
I've created a double index (people's names; place names). Here is an extract from the .tex file:
\documentclass[fontsize=10pt,paper=a4,titlepage]{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[...
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How to avoid uneven linespacing in quotation in memoir LaTeX [duplicate]
In a text with a quotation occurs an uneven linespacing when the quotation contains more than one paragraph.
How to avoid the uneven linespacing?
e.g.:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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Curly apostrophes in ConTeXt
ConTeXt seems to be moving towards a more consistent markup-based approach. For example, ` and ' are no longer rendered as curly quotes by default, and instead quotations should be typeset using the \...
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Curly quotes in ConTeXt
I was surprised to learn that ConTeXt won't render ` and ' as curly quotes anymore.
According to the ConTeXt wiki, you can recover the previous behaviour by turning on by the non-standard font feature ...
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Baskervaldx doesn’t allow certain glyphs
This MWE:
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[osf]{Baskervaldx}
\begin{document}
\ss{} dreißig fließen „Test“ "Test" ‚Test‘ »Test« ›Test‹
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Handling Three Sets of Nested Quotation Marks with Csquotes
Consider, for example, the quote
found here.
I would like to replicate sentences such as the above using Latex; however, the following code does not work:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{...
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