Block quote with big quotation marks
How can I create a block quote enviroment with big quotation marks similar to the Cquote Template of Wikipedia?
Additionally it would be nice to place both quotation marks and quote in a colored box and to have the author closer to the citation.
color punctuation quoting
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How can I create a block quote enviroment with big quotation marks similar to the Cquote Template of Wikipedia?
Additionally it would be nice to place both quotation marks and quote in a colored box and to have the author closer to the citation.
color punctuation quoting
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JFYI: See now also Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom.
– Speravir
Feb 21 '13 at 3:32
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How can I create a block quote enviroment with big quotation marks similar to the Cquote Template of Wikipedia?
Additionally it would be nice to place both quotation marks and quote in a colored box and to have the author closer to the citation.
color punctuation quoting
How can I create a block quote enviroment with big quotation marks similar to the Cquote Template of Wikipedia?
Additionally it would be nice to place both quotation marks and quote in a colored box and to have the author closer to the citation.
color punctuation quoting
color punctuation quoting
edited Apr 30 '11 at 11:37
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JFYI: See now also Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom.
– Speravir
Feb 21 '13 at 3:32
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JFYI: See now also Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom.
– Speravir
Feb 21 '13 at 3:32
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JFYI: See now also Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom.
– Speravir
Feb 21 '13 at 3:32
JFYI: See now also Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom.
– Speravir
Feb 21 '13 at 3:32
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Here's one solution using TikZ
which defines a new environment using the framed
package. You should preferably compile this with xelatex
or lualatex
, since it gives the easiest access to a wide range of fonts. I've added code to make it run under pdflatex
as well.
The code has now been updated to allow some flexibility in the formatting of the different components of the quotation, and the environment takes two arguments:
Environment Syntax
begin{shadequote}[<alignment>]{<author>}
text of quote
end{shadequote}
Code
% !TEX TS-program = xeLaTeX
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
usepackage{etoolbox}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{tikz}
usepackage{framed}
% conditional for xetex or luatex
newififxetexorluatex
ifxetex
xetexorluatextrue
else
ifluatex
xetexorluatextrue
else
xetexorluatexfalse
fi
fi
%
ifxetexorluatex%
usepackage{fontspec}
usepackage{libertine} % or use setmainfont to choose any font on your system
newfontfamilyquotefont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O} % selects Libertine as the quote font
else
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package
newcommand*quotefont{fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-LF}} % selects Libertine as the quote font
fi
newcommand*quotesize{60} % if quote size changes, need a way to make shifts relative
% Make commands for the quotes
newcommand*{openquote}
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=-4ex,yshift=-2.5ex]
node (OQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont``};kern0pt}
newcommand*{closequote}[1]
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=4ex,yshift={#1}]
node (CQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont''};}
% select a colour for the shading
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
newcommand*shadedauthorformat{emph} % define format for the author argument
% Now a command to allow left, right and centre alignment of the author
newcommand*authoralign[1]{%
if#1l
defauthorfill{}defquotefill{hfill}
else
if#1r
defauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{}
else
if#1c
gdefauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{hfill}
elsetypeout{Invalid option}
fi
fi
fi}
% wrap everything in its own environment which takes one argument (author) and one optional argument
% specifying the alignment [l, r or c]
%
newenvironment{shadequote}[2][l]%
{authoralign{#1}
ifblank{#2}
{defshadequoteauthor{}defyshift{-2ex}defquotefill{hfill}}
{defshadequoteauthor{parauthorfillshadedauthorformat{#2}}defyshift{2ex}}
begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
{shadequoteauthorquotefillclosequote{yshift}end{quote}end{snugshade}}
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}[l]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[r]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[c]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}{}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
end{document}
In this code, the font for the quotation marks is set independently of the main document font. This is because depending on the main font you choose, the very large quotation marks will not look good; Linux Libertine has pretty quotes that seem appropriate for the purpose. If you want to use this environment with another main document font, remove/change the usepackage{libertine}
.
Sample output
1
@Alun: Why do you definequotefont
? libertine is already present.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 14:32
1
@Herbert Because these are decorative elements, it makes sense to define the font for the quotes independent of the document font. For example, if you just use Computer Modern, the big quotes look quite silly; The libertine font has a pretty quote for this purpose, and I would use it with most document fonts.
– Alan Munn
Apr 30 '11 at 14:53
@Alun: You know, that I know that ... ;-) But then it makes sense to use another text font in your example, if you want to show this behaviour.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 17:32
1
@Chernoff I'm not sure why this happens, but you can adjust the value ofxshift
in theclosequote
macro to1ex
(or similar values) to adjust the positioning of the quote.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:02
1
@Chernoff Again, not sure the reason, but you can addvspace{1ex}
(or similar value) before theemph
in theshadedauthorformat
definition.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:41
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(We just got another question asking for something similar: Quote style like on owni.eu. I wasn't aware of this question when I started to answer that one, but on becoming aware of it decided to post my answer here instead.)
It's also TikZ-based but slightly different to Alan's as the whole thing ends up in a TikZ node. This does mean that it won't work with page-breaking. One could also adapt the quote marks from Alan's version to make them look a bit better.
Here's the result:
And here's the code:
documentclass{article}
thispagestyle{empty}
usepackage{lipsum}
usepackage{tikz}
usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
makeatletter
tikzset{%
fancy quotes/.style={
text width=fq@width pt,
align=justify,
inner sep=1em,
anchor=north west,
minimum width=linewidth,
},
fancy quotes width/.initial={.8linewidth},
fancy quotes marks/.style={
scale=8,
text=white,
inner sep=0pt,
},
fancy quotes opening/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes closing/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes background/.style={
show background rectangle,
inner frame xsep=0pt,
background rectangle/.style={
fill=gray!25,
rounded corners,
},
}
}
newenvironment{fancyquotes}[1]{%
noindent
tikzpicture[fancy quotes background]
node[fancy quotes opening,anchor=north west] (fq@ul) at (0,0) {``};
tikz@scan@one@pointpgfutil@firstofone(fq@ul.east)
pgfmathsetmacro{fq@width}{linewidth - 2*pgf@x}
node[fancy quotes,#1] (fq@txt) at (fq@ul.north west) bgroup}
{egroup;
node[overlay,fancy quotes closing,anchor=east] at (fq@txt.south east) {''};
endtikzpicture}
makeatother
begin{document}
lipsum[1]
begin{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{document}
The lipsum
package is just to provide some dummy text.
I like this one a lot and have started to use it in my documents. Thanks!
– adl
Jan 26 '12 at 16:46
This looks seriously good in documents. Thanks!
– tchakravarty
Jul 25 '12 at 6:53
Just had a request on TeXwelt.de to have the box in twocolumn mode taking up just one column. Basically,s/textwidth/columnwidth/g
. Can you add a line explaining and maybe another screenshot?
– Johannes_B
Feb 13 '15 at 16:44
@Johannes_B Feel free to edit the answer with that change. As this is over three years old, I don't feel able to resurrect it myself.
– Loop Space
Feb 14 '15 at 19:34
1
@Johannes_B @LoopSpace This is great! This creates no spacing between paragraphs within the block quote, however. How can I modify it so that there is normal spacing between paragraphs within the fancyquotes environment? I tried addingsetlength{baselineskip}{16pt}
andsetlength{parskip}{baselineskip}
but neither one worked.
– incandescentman
Dec 21 '16 at 5:31
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documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine}
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{framed}
newcommand*openquote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{``}}}
newcommand*closequote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{''}}}
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
makeatletter
newifif@right
defshadequote{@righttrueshadequote@i}
defshadequote@i{begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
defendshadequote{%
if@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
@namedef{shadequote*}{@rightfalseshadequote@i}
@namedef{endshadequote*}{endshadequote}
makeatother
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote*}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote*}
begin{shadequote}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.paremph{Douglas Adams}
end{shadequote}
end{document}
Using your code in a minimal example works great, but when I copy it to a large document I work on I get the error "You can't use 'spacefactor' in vertical mode". Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
– lumbric
Mar 21 '12 at 22:39
you'd forgotten themakeatletter
...makeatother
– Herbert
Mar 22 '12 at 11:09
Thanks a lot! It took me quite a while to figure out what happend, but you were right, I messed up themakeatletter
andmakeatother
commands. This happend after exporting some code from LyX, at this step LyX put some additionalmakeatletter
andmakeatother
around my custom code.
– lumbric
Mar 26 '12 at 21:22
If there is a line break before the closing quote, it looks a bit strange. I don't have a real good suggestion, but I think placing simple anolinebreak
makes things a bit better. This means one would have to replace the lineif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
bynolinebreakif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
. This is a comment and not an edit, because I'm unsure if it's the best solution.
– lumbric
Mar 28 '12 at 20:28
I'm trying to use this in my thesis which is based onclassicthesis
but the problem is, it mess with all my fonts and change them. What am I doing wrong here? The same holds for @Herbert 's answer.
– Pouya
Sep 25 '13 at 15:31
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Had I known about this question, I would not have written cfr-dquote
. However, I didn't, so I did. Here's a lightly modified version of my package for public consumption or rejection.
The package defines a command, dquote[<dimension>]{<long text>}{<short text}
which is intended to be used so that <dimension>
is the width desired, <long text>
is the quotation and <short text>
is the attribution.
The package is based on TikZ and the appearance can be customised using the usual key-value interface. For example, I've never used this with a coloured background to the quotation, but that is easy to achieve by simply altering quote style
.
For example,
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
produces the following output
The package consists of two files, cfr-dquote.sty
and cfr-dquote.tex
. In theory, the latter can be compiled alone, since it uses the standalone
class, but don't be tempted to use it this way - that's just to make tweaks and debugging easier.
Complete code:
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.sty}
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% cfr-dquote.sty
NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}% LaTeX 2.09 can't be used (nor non-LaTeX)
[1994/12/01]% LaTeX date must December 1994 or later
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesPackageSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.sty 7799 2018-07-20 01:52:15Z cfr $}
RequirePackage{xcolor,pifont,standalone,xparse,tikz}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarypicfix.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{picfix}}{}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarycfrexternal.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{cfrexternal}}{usetikzlibrary{external}}
NewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{normalfontlarge}
NewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{normalfontnormalsize}
AtBeginDocument{%
newlengthcfrdquoteparskipsetlengthcfrdquoteparskip{parskip}%
newlengthcfrdquoteparindentsetlengthcfrdquoteparindent{parindent}}
% BEGIN defaults
tikzset{%
dquote text font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote attrib font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
#1
}
},
/cfr-dquote/quote style/.style={align=justify, color=blue!50!black},
/cfr-dquote/quote/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquotetextfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/attrib/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquoteattribfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/quote mark/.style={color=cfrdquotecolor, opacity=cfrdquoteopacity, font=cfrdquotesize, scale=cfrdquotescale},
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width/.store in=cfrdquotewidth,
text/.store in=cfrdquotetext,
attribution/.store in=cfrdquoteattrib,
width=120mm,
text={Does dim o gwbl yn y fan hon!},
attribution={Neb},
marks/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/quote marks/.cd,
#1
}
},
quote marks/size/.store in=cfrdquotesize,
quote marks/scale/.store in=cfrdquotescale,
quote marks/color/.store in=cfrdquotecolor,
quote marks/opacity/.store in=cfrdquoteopacity,
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!cyan,
opacity=.25,
},
}
% END defaults
% BEGIN defn dquote
NewDocumentCommanddquote { O {120mm} +m m }{%
tikzset{%
external/export next=false,
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width={#1},
text={setlengthparskip{cfrdquoteparskip}setlengthparindent{cfrdquoteparindent}#2},
attribution={#3}
}%
input{cfr-dquote}%
}
% END defn dquote
endinput
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.tex}
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% arara: pdflatex: { synctex: true }
%BEGIN preamble
csname standaloneignoreendcsname
pdfminorversion=7
PassOptionsToPackage{rgb}{xcolor}
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesFileSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.tex 7800 2018-07-20 01:58:28Z cfr $}
documentclass[tikz,12pt]{standalone}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
usepackage{pifont,biblatex}
% END preamble
begin{document}%
begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0pt]
node (quotation) [/cfr-dquote/quote, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquotetext};
node (attrib) [/cfr-dquote/attrib, below=of quotation, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquoteattrib};
node (qlhs) [left=of quotation.north west, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=.25em, yshift=.25em, anchor=north east] {ding{123}};
node (qrhs) [right=of quotation.south east, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=-.25em, yshift=-.75em, anchor=south west] {ding{124}};
pgfresetboundingbox
useasboundingbox (attrib.south -| qlhs.west) rectangle (quotation.north -| qrhs.east);
end{tikzpicture}%
end{document}
end{filecontents}
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
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I know that this is old, but I may as well share my simple attempt.
Note: requires usepackage{xcolor}
The command itself:
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
Minimum working example:
documentclass{article}
usepackage{xcolor}
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
begin{document}
quotebox{Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.}
end{document}
Example:
New contributor
1
Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please --as usual here -- make your code snippet compilable for a fast proof?
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Sorry... What do you mean by snippet compatible? @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
1 hour ago
Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it withdocumentclass{...}
, the requiredusepackage
's,begin{document}
, andend{document}
. That is called a minimal working example (MWE).
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Done, thank you. @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
31 mins ago
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Here's one solution using TikZ
which defines a new environment using the framed
package. You should preferably compile this with xelatex
or lualatex
, since it gives the easiest access to a wide range of fonts. I've added code to make it run under pdflatex
as well.
The code has now been updated to allow some flexibility in the formatting of the different components of the quotation, and the environment takes two arguments:
Environment Syntax
begin{shadequote}[<alignment>]{<author>}
text of quote
end{shadequote}
Code
% !TEX TS-program = xeLaTeX
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
usepackage{etoolbox}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{tikz}
usepackage{framed}
% conditional for xetex or luatex
newififxetexorluatex
ifxetex
xetexorluatextrue
else
ifluatex
xetexorluatextrue
else
xetexorluatexfalse
fi
fi
%
ifxetexorluatex%
usepackage{fontspec}
usepackage{libertine} % or use setmainfont to choose any font on your system
newfontfamilyquotefont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O} % selects Libertine as the quote font
else
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package
newcommand*quotefont{fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-LF}} % selects Libertine as the quote font
fi
newcommand*quotesize{60} % if quote size changes, need a way to make shifts relative
% Make commands for the quotes
newcommand*{openquote}
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=-4ex,yshift=-2.5ex]
node (OQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont``};kern0pt}
newcommand*{closequote}[1]
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=4ex,yshift={#1}]
node (CQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont''};}
% select a colour for the shading
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
newcommand*shadedauthorformat{emph} % define format for the author argument
% Now a command to allow left, right and centre alignment of the author
newcommand*authoralign[1]{%
if#1l
defauthorfill{}defquotefill{hfill}
else
if#1r
defauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{}
else
if#1c
gdefauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{hfill}
elsetypeout{Invalid option}
fi
fi
fi}
% wrap everything in its own environment which takes one argument (author) and one optional argument
% specifying the alignment [l, r or c]
%
newenvironment{shadequote}[2][l]%
{authoralign{#1}
ifblank{#2}
{defshadequoteauthor{}defyshift{-2ex}defquotefill{hfill}}
{defshadequoteauthor{parauthorfillshadedauthorformat{#2}}defyshift{2ex}}
begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
{shadequoteauthorquotefillclosequote{yshift}end{quote}end{snugshade}}
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}[l]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[r]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[c]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}{}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
end{document}
In this code, the font for the quotation marks is set independently of the main document font. This is because depending on the main font you choose, the very large quotation marks will not look good; Linux Libertine has pretty quotes that seem appropriate for the purpose. If you want to use this environment with another main document font, remove/change the usepackage{libertine}
.
Sample output
1
@Alun: Why do you definequotefont
? libertine is already present.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 14:32
1
@Herbert Because these are decorative elements, it makes sense to define the font for the quotes independent of the document font. For example, if you just use Computer Modern, the big quotes look quite silly; The libertine font has a pretty quote for this purpose, and I would use it with most document fonts.
– Alan Munn
Apr 30 '11 at 14:53
@Alun: You know, that I know that ... ;-) But then it makes sense to use another text font in your example, if you want to show this behaviour.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 17:32
1
@Chernoff I'm not sure why this happens, but you can adjust the value ofxshift
in theclosequote
macro to1ex
(or similar values) to adjust the positioning of the quote.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:02
1
@Chernoff Again, not sure the reason, but you can addvspace{1ex}
(or similar value) before theemph
in theshadedauthorformat
definition.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:41
|
show 16 more comments
Here's one solution using TikZ
which defines a new environment using the framed
package. You should preferably compile this with xelatex
or lualatex
, since it gives the easiest access to a wide range of fonts. I've added code to make it run under pdflatex
as well.
The code has now been updated to allow some flexibility in the formatting of the different components of the quotation, and the environment takes two arguments:
Environment Syntax
begin{shadequote}[<alignment>]{<author>}
text of quote
end{shadequote}
Code
% !TEX TS-program = xeLaTeX
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
usepackage{etoolbox}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{tikz}
usepackage{framed}
% conditional for xetex or luatex
newififxetexorluatex
ifxetex
xetexorluatextrue
else
ifluatex
xetexorluatextrue
else
xetexorluatexfalse
fi
fi
%
ifxetexorluatex%
usepackage{fontspec}
usepackage{libertine} % or use setmainfont to choose any font on your system
newfontfamilyquotefont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O} % selects Libertine as the quote font
else
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package
newcommand*quotefont{fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-LF}} % selects Libertine as the quote font
fi
newcommand*quotesize{60} % if quote size changes, need a way to make shifts relative
% Make commands for the quotes
newcommand*{openquote}
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=-4ex,yshift=-2.5ex]
node (OQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont``};kern0pt}
newcommand*{closequote}[1]
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=4ex,yshift={#1}]
node (CQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont''};}
% select a colour for the shading
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
newcommand*shadedauthorformat{emph} % define format for the author argument
% Now a command to allow left, right and centre alignment of the author
newcommand*authoralign[1]{%
if#1l
defauthorfill{}defquotefill{hfill}
else
if#1r
defauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{}
else
if#1c
gdefauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{hfill}
elsetypeout{Invalid option}
fi
fi
fi}
% wrap everything in its own environment which takes one argument (author) and one optional argument
% specifying the alignment [l, r or c]
%
newenvironment{shadequote}[2][l]%
{authoralign{#1}
ifblank{#2}
{defshadequoteauthor{}defyshift{-2ex}defquotefill{hfill}}
{defshadequoteauthor{parauthorfillshadedauthorformat{#2}}defyshift{2ex}}
begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
{shadequoteauthorquotefillclosequote{yshift}end{quote}end{snugshade}}
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}[l]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[r]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[c]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}{}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
end{document}
In this code, the font for the quotation marks is set independently of the main document font. This is because depending on the main font you choose, the very large quotation marks will not look good; Linux Libertine has pretty quotes that seem appropriate for the purpose. If you want to use this environment with another main document font, remove/change the usepackage{libertine}
.
Sample output
1
@Alun: Why do you definequotefont
? libertine is already present.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 14:32
1
@Herbert Because these are decorative elements, it makes sense to define the font for the quotes independent of the document font. For example, if you just use Computer Modern, the big quotes look quite silly; The libertine font has a pretty quote for this purpose, and I would use it with most document fonts.
– Alan Munn
Apr 30 '11 at 14:53
@Alun: You know, that I know that ... ;-) But then it makes sense to use another text font in your example, if you want to show this behaviour.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 17:32
1
@Chernoff I'm not sure why this happens, but you can adjust the value ofxshift
in theclosequote
macro to1ex
(or similar values) to adjust the positioning of the quote.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:02
1
@Chernoff Again, not sure the reason, but you can addvspace{1ex}
(or similar value) before theemph
in theshadedauthorformat
definition.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:41
|
show 16 more comments
Here's one solution using TikZ
which defines a new environment using the framed
package. You should preferably compile this with xelatex
or lualatex
, since it gives the easiest access to a wide range of fonts. I've added code to make it run under pdflatex
as well.
The code has now been updated to allow some flexibility in the formatting of the different components of the quotation, and the environment takes two arguments:
Environment Syntax
begin{shadequote}[<alignment>]{<author>}
text of quote
end{shadequote}
Code
% !TEX TS-program = xeLaTeX
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
usepackage{etoolbox}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{tikz}
usepackage{framed}
% conditional for xetex or luatex
newififxetexorluatex
ifxetex
xetexorluatextrue
else
ifluatex
xetexorluatextrue
else
xetexorluatexfalse
fi
fi
%
ifxetexorluatex%
usepackage{fontspec}
usepackage{libertine} % or use setmainfont to choose any font on your system
newfontfamilyquotefont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O} % selects Libertine as the quote font
else
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package
newcommand*quotefont{fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-LF}} % selects Libertine as the quote font
fi
newcommand*quotesize{60} % if quote size changes, need a way to make shifts relative
% Make commands for the quotes
newcommand*{openquote}
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=-4ex,yshift=-2.5ex]
node (OQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont``};kern0pt}
newcommand*{closequote}[1]
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=4ex,yshift={#1}]
node (CQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont''};}
% select a colour for the shading
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
newcommand*shadedauthorformat{emph} % define format for the author argument
% Now a command to allow left, right and centre alignment of the author
newcommand*authoralign[1]{%
if#1l
defauthorfill{}defquotefill{hfill}
else
if#1r
defauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{}
else
if#1c
gdefauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{hfill}
elsetypeout{Invalid option}
fi
fi
fi}
% wrap everything in its own environment which takes one argument (author) and one optional argument
% specifying the alignment [l, r or c]
%
newenvironment{shadequote}[2][l]%
{authoralign{#1}
ifblank{#2}
{defshadequoteauthor{}defyshift{-2ex}defquotefill{hfill}}
{defshadequoteauthor{parauthorfillshadedauthorformat{#2}}defyshift{2ex}}
begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
{shadequoteauthorquotefillclosequote{yshift}end{quote}end{snugshade}}
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}[l]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[r]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[c]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}{}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
end{document}
In this code, the font for the quotation marks is set independently of the main document font. This is because depending on the main font you choose, the very large quotation marks will not look good; Linux Libertine has pretty quotes that seem appropriate for the purpose. If you want to use this environment with another main document font, remove/change the usepackage{libertine}
.
Sample output
Here's one solution using TikZ
which defines a new environment using the framed
package. You should preferably compile this with xelatex
or lualatex
, since it gives the easiest access to a wide range of fonts. I've added code to make it run under pdflatex
as well.
The code has now been updated to allow some flexibility in the formatting of the different components of the quotation, and the environment takes two arguments:
Environment Syntax
begin{shadequote}[<alignment>]{<author>}
text of quote
end{shadequote}
Code
% !TEX TS-program = xeLaTeX
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
usepackage{etoolbox}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{tikz}
usepackage{framed}
% conditional for xetex or luatex
newififxetexorluatex
ifxetex
xetexorluatextrue
else
ifluatex
xetexorluatextrue
else
xetexorluatexfalse
fi
fi
%
ifxetexorluatex%
usepackage{fontspec}
usepackage{libertine} % or use setmainfont to choose any font on your system
newfontfamilyquotefont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O} % selects Libertine as the quote font
else
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package
newcommand*quotefont{fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-LF}} % selects Libertine as the quote font
fi
newcommand*quotesize{60} % if quote size changes, need a way to make shifts relative
% Make commands for the quotes
newcommand*{openquote}
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=-4ex,yshift=-2.5ex]
node (OQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont``};kern0pt}
newcommand*{closequote}[1]
{tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=4ex,yshift={#1}]
node (CQ) {quotefontfontsize{quotesize}{quotesize}selectfont''};}
% select a colour for the shading
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
newcommand*shadedauthorformat{emph} % define format for the author argument
% Now a command to allow left, right and centre alignment of the author
newcommand*authoralign[1]{%
if#1l
defauthorfill{}defquotefill{hfill}
else
if#1r
defauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{}
else
if#1c
gdefauthorfill{hfill}defquotefill{hfill}
elsetypeout{Invalid option}
fi
fi
fi}
% wrap everything in its own environment which takes one argument (author) and one optional argument
% specifying the alignment [l, r or c]
%
newenvironment{shadequote}[2][l]%
{authoralign{#1}
ifblank{#2}
{defshadequoteauthor{}defyshift{-2ex}defquotefill{hfill}}
{defshadequoteauthor{parauthorfillshadedauthorformat{#2}}defyshift{2ex}}
begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
{shadequoteauthorquotefillclosequote{yshift}end{quote}end{snugshade}}
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}[l]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[r]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}[c]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote}{}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
end{shadequote}
end{document}
In this code, the font for the quotation marks is set independently of the main document font. This is because depending on the main font you choose, the very large quotation marks will not look good; Linux Libertine has pretty quotes that seem appropriate for the purpose. If you want to use this environment with another main document font, remove/change the usepackage{libertine}
.
Sample output
edited May 2 '13 at 4:44
answered Apr 30 '11 at 0:36
Alan MunnAlan Munn
163k28432711
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1
@Alun: Why do you definequotefont
? libertine is already present.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 14:32
1
@Herbert Because these are decorative elements, it makes sense to define the font for the quotes independent of the document font. For example, if you just use Computer Modern, the big quotes look quite silly; The libertine font has a pretty quote for this purpose, and I would use it with most document fonts.
– Alan Munn
Apr 30 '11 at 14:53
@Alun: You know, that I know that ... ;-) But then it makes sense to use another text font in your example, if you want to show this behaviour.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 17:32
1
@Chernoff I'm not sure why this happens, but you can adjust the value ofxshift
in theclosequote
macro to1ex
(or similar values) to adjust the positioning of the quote.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:02
1
@Chernoff Again, not sure the reason, but you can addvspace{1ex}
(or similar value) before theemph
in theshadedauthorformat
definition.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:41
|
show 16 more comments
1
@Alun: Why do you definequotefont
? libertine is already present.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 14:32
1
@Herbert Because these are decorative elements, it makes sense to define the font for the quotes independent of the document font. For example, if you just use Computer Modern, the big quotes look quite silly; The libertine font has a pretty quote for this purpose, and I would use it with most document fonts.
– Alan Munn
Apr 30 '11 at 14:53
@Alun: You know, that I know that ... ;-) But then it makes sense to use another text font in your example, if you want to show this behaviour.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 17:32
1
@Chernoff I'm not sure why this happens, but you can adjust the value ofxshift
in theclosequote
macro to1ex
(or similar values) to adjust the positioning of the quote.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:02
1
@Chernoff Again, not sure the reason, but you can addvspace{1ex}
(or similar value) before theemph
in theshadedauthorformat
definition.
– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:41
1
1
@Alun: Why do you define
quotefont
? libertine is already present.– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 14:32
@Alun: Why do you define
quotefont
? libertine is already present.– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 14:32
1
1
@Herbert Because these are decorative elements, it makes sense to define the font for the quotes independent of the document font. For example, if you just use Computer Modern, the big quotes look quite silly; The libertine font has a pretty quote for this purpose, and I would use it with most document fonts.
– Alan Munn
Apr 30 '11 at 14:53
@Herbert Because these are decorative elements, it makes sense to define the font for the quotes independent of the document font. For example, if you just use Computer Modern, the big quotes look quite silly; The libertine font has a pretty quote for this purpose, and I would use it with most document fonts.
– Alan Munn
Apr 30 '11 at 14:53
@Alun: You know, that I know that ... ;-) But then it makes sense to use another text font in your example, if you want to show this behaviour.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 17:32
@Alun: You know, that I know that ... ;-) But then it makes sense to use another text font in your example, if you want to show this behaviour.
– Herbert
Apr 30 '11 at 17:32
1
1
@Chernoff I'm not sure why this happens, but you can adjust the value of
xshift
in the closequote
macro to 1ex
(or similar values) to adjust the positioning of the quote.– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:02
@Chernoff I'm not sure why this happens, but you can adjust the value of
xshift
in the closequote
macro to 1ex
(or similar values) to adjust the positioning of the quote.– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:02
1
1
@Chernoff Again, not sure the reason, but you can add
vspace{1ex}
(or similar value) before the emph
in the shadedauthorformat
definition.– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:41
@Chernoff Again, not sure the reason, but you can add
vspace{1ex}
(or similar value) before the emph
in the shadedauthorformat
definition.– Alan Munn
Jun 30 '18 at 16:41
|
show 16 more comments
(We just got another question asking for something similar: Quote style like on owni.eu. I wasn't aware of this question when I started to answer that one, but on becoming aware of it decided to post my answer here instead.)
It's also TikZ-based but slightly different to Alan's as the whole thing ends up in a TikZ node. This does mean that it won't work with page-breaking. One could also adapt the quote marks from Alan's version to make them look a bit better.
Here's the result:
And here's the code:
documentclass{article}
thispagestyle{empty}
usepackage{lipsum}
usepackage{tikz}
usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
makeatletter
tikzset{%
fancy quotes/.style={
text width=fq@width pt,
align=justify,
inner sep=1em,
anchor=north west,
minimum width=linewidth,
},
fancy quotes width/.initial={.8linewidth},
fancy quotes marks/.style={
scale=8,
text=white,
inner sep=0pt,
},
fancy quotes opening/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes closing/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes background/.style={
show background rectangle,
inner frame xsep=0pt,
background rectangle/.style={
fill=gray!25,
rounded corners,
},
}
}
newenvironment{fancyquotes}[1]{%
noindent
tikzpicture[fancy quotes background]
node[fancy quotes opening,anchor=north west] (fq@ul) at (0,0) {``};
tikz@scan@one@pointpgfutil@firstofone(fq@ul.east)
pgfmathsetmacro{fq@width}{linewidth - 2*pgf@x}
node[fancy quotes,#1] (fq@txt) at (fq@ul.north west) bgroup}
{egroup;
node[overlay,fancy quotes closing,anchor=east] at (fq@txt.south east) {''};
endtikzpicture}
makeatother
begin{document}
lipsum[1]
begin{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{document}
The lipsum
package is just to provide some dummy text.
I like this one a lot and have started to use it in my documents. Thanks!
– adl
Jan 26 '12 at 16:46
This looks seriously good in documents. Thanks!
– tchakravarty
Jul 25 '12 at 6:53
Just had a request on TeXwelt.de to have the box in twocolumn mode taking up just one column. Basically,s/textwidth/columnwidth/g
. Can you add a line explaining and maybe another screenshot?
– Johannes_B
Feb 13 '15 at 16:44
@Johannes_B Feel free to edit the answer with that change. As this is over three years old, I don't feel able to resurrect it myself.
– Loop Space
Feb 14 '15 at 19:34
1
@Johannes_B @LoopSpace This is great! This creates no spacing between paragraphs within the block quote, however. How can I modify it so that there is normal spacing between paragraphs within the fancyquotes environment? I tried addingsetlength{baselineskip}{16pt}
andsetlength{parskip}{baselineskip}
but neither one worked.
– incandescentman
Dec 21 '16 at 5:31
add a comment |
(We just got another question asking for something similar: Quote style like on owni.eu. I wasn't aware of this question when I started to answer that one, but on becoming aware of it decided to post my answer here instead.)
It's also TikZ-based but slightly different to Alan's as the whole thing ends up in a TikZ node. This does mean that it won't work with page-breaking. One could also adapt the quote marks from Alan's version to make them look a bit better.
Here's the result:
And here's the code:
documentclass{article}
thispagestyle{empty}
usepackage{lipsum}
usepackage{tikz}
usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
makeatletter
tikzset{%
fancy quotes/.style={
text width=fq@width pt,
align=justify,
inner sep=1em,
anchor=north west,
minimum width=linewidth,
},
fancy quotes width/.initial={.8linewidth},
fancy quotes marks/.style={
scale=8,
text=white,
inner sep=0pt,
},
fancy quotes opening/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes closing/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes background/.style={
show background rectangle,
inner frame xsep=0pt,
background rectangle/.style={
fill=gray!25,
rounded corners,
},
}
}
newenvironment{fancyquotes}[1]{%
noindent
tikzpicture[fancy quotes background]
node[fancy quotes opening,anchor=north west] (fq@ul) at (0,0) {``};
tikz@scan@one@pointpgfutil@firstofone(fq@ul.east)
pgfmathsetmacro{fq@width}{linewidth - 2*pgf@x}
node[fancy quotes,#1] (fq@txt) at (fq@ul.north west) bgroup}
{egroup;
node[overlay,fancy quotes closing,anchor=east] at (fq@txt.south east) {''};
endtikzpicture}
makeatother
begin{document}
lipsum[1]
begin{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{document}
The lipsum
package is just to provide some dummy text.
I like this one a lot and have started to use it in my documents. Thanks!
– adl
Jan 26 '12 at 16:46
This looks seriously good in documents. Thanks!
– tchakravarty
Jul 25 '12 at 6:53
Just had a request on TeXwelt.de to have the box in twocolumn mode taking up just one column. Basically,s/textwidth/columnwidth/g
. Can you add a line explaining and maybe another screenshot?
– Johannes_B
Feb 13 '15 at 16:44
@Johannes_B Feel free to edit the answer with that change. As this is over three years old, I don't feel able to resurrect it myself.
– Loop Space
Feb 14 '15 at 19:34
1
@Johannes_B @LoopSpace This is great! This creates no spacing between paragraphs within the block quote, however. How can I modify it so that there is normal spacing between paragraphs within the fancyquotes environment? I tried addingsetlength{baselineskip}{16pt}
andsetlength{parskip}{baselineskip}
but neither one worked.
– incandescentman
Dec 21 '16 at 5:31
add a comment |
(We just got another question asking for something similar: Quote style like on owni.eu. I wasn't aware of this question when I started to answer that one, but on becoming aware of it decided to post my answer here instead.)
It's also TikZ-based but slightly different to Alan's as the whole thing ends up in a TikZ node. This does mean that it won't work with page-breaking. One could also adapt the quote marks from Alan's version to make them look a bit better.
Here's the result:
And here's the code:
documentclass{article}
thispagestyle{empty}
usepackage{lipsum}
usepackage{tikz}
usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
makeatletter
tikzset{%
fancy quotes/.style={
text width=fq@width pt,
align=justify,
inner sep=1em,
anchor=north west,
minimum width=linewidth,
},
fancy quotes width/.initial={.8linewidth},
fancy quotes marks/.style={
scale=8,
text=white,
inner sep=0pt,
},
fancy quotes opening/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes closing/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes background/.style={
show background rectangle,
inner frame xsep=0pt,
background rectangle/.style={
fill=gray!25,
rounded corners,
},
}
}
newenvironment{fancyquotes}[1]{%
noindent
tikzpicture[fancy quotes background]
node[fancy quotes opening,anchor=north west] (fq@ul) at (0,0) {``};
tikz@scan@one@pointpgfutil@firstofone(fq@ul.east)
pgfmathsetmacro{fq@width}{linewidth - 2*pgf@x}
node[fancy quotes,#1] (fq@txt) at (fq@ul.north west) bgroup}
{egroup;
node[overlay,fancy quotes closing,anchor=east] at (fq@txt.south east) {''};
endtikzpicture}
makeatother
begin{document}
lipsum[1]
begin{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{document}
The lipsum
package is just to provide some dummy text.
(We just got another question asking for something similar: Quote style like on owni.eu. I wasn't aware of this question when I started to answer that one, but on becoming aware of it decided to post my answer here instead.)
It's also TikZ-based but slightly different to Alan's as the whole thing ends up in a TikZ node. This does mean that it won't work with page-breaking. One could also adapt the quote marks from Alan's version to make them look a bit better.
Here's the result:
And here's the code:
documentclass{article}
thispagestyle{empty}
usepackage{lipsum}
usepackage{tikz}
usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
makeatletter
tikzset{%
fancy quotes/.style={
text width=fq@width pt,
align=justify,
inner sep=1em,
anchor=north west,
minimum width=linewidth,
},
fancy quotes width/.initial={.8linewidth},
fancy quotes marks/.style={
scale=8,
text=white,
inner sep=0pt,
},
fancy quotes opening/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes closing/.style={
fancy quotes marks,
},
fancy quotes background/.style={
show background rectangle,
inner frame xsep=0pt,
background rectangle/.style={
fill=gray!25,
rounded corners,
},
}
}
newenvironment{fancyquotes}[1]{%
noindent
tikzpicture[fancy quotes background]
node[fancy quotes opening,anchor=north west] (fq@ul) at (0,0) {``};
tikz@scan@one@pointpgfutil@firstofone(fq@ul.east)
pgfmathsetmacro{fq@width}{linewidth - 2*pgf@x}
node[fancy quotes,#1] (fq@txt) at (fq@ul.north west) bgroup}
{egroup;
node[overlay,fancy quotes closing,anchor=east] at (fq@txt.south east) {''};
endtikzpicture}
makeatother
begin{document}
lipsum[1]
begin{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{fancyquotes}
lipsum[1]
end{document}
The lipsum
package is just to provide some dummy text.
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35
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answered Sep 14 '11 at 11:27
Loop SpaceLoop Space
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I like this one a lot and have started to use it in my documents. Thanks!
– adl
Jan 26 '12 at 16:46
This looks seriously good in documents. Thanks!
– tchakravarty
Jul 25 '12 at 6:53
Just had a request on TeXwelt.de to have the box in twocolumn mode taking up just one column. Basically,s/textwidth/columnwidth/g
. Can you add a line explaining and maybe another screenshot?
– Johannes_B
Feb 13 '15 at 16:44
@Johannes_B Feel free to edit the answer with that change. As this is over three years old, I don't feel able to resurrect it myself.
– Loop Space
Feb 14 '15 at 19:34
1
@Johannes_B @LoopSpace This is great! This creates no spacing between paragraphs within the block quote, however. How can I modify it so that there is normal spacing between paragraphs within the fancyquotes environment? I tried addingsetlength{baselineskip}{16pt}
andsetlength{parskip}{baselineskip}
but neither one worked.
– incandescentman
Dec 21 '16 at 5:31
add a comment |
I like this one a lot and have started to use it in my documents. Thanks!
– adl
Jan 26 '12 at 16:46
This looks seriously good in documents. Thanks!
– tchakravarty
Jul 25 '12 at 6:53
Just had a request on TeXwelt.de to have the box in twocolumn mode taking up just one column. Basically,s/textwidth/columnwidth/g
. Can you add a line explaining and maybe another screenshot?
– Johannes_B
Feb 13 '15 at 16:44
@Johannes_B Feel free to edit the answer with that change. As this is over three years old, I don't feel able to resurrect it myself.
– Loop Space
Feb 14 '15 at 19:34
1
@Johannes_B @LoopSpace This is great! This creates no spacing between paragraphs within the block quote, however. How can I modify it so that there is normal spacing between paragraphs within the fancyquotes environment? I tried addingsetlength{baselineskip}{16pt}
andsetlength{parskip}{baselineskip}
but neither one worked.
– incandescentman
Dec 21 '16 at 5:31
I like this one a lot and have started to use it in my documents. Thanks!
– adl
Jan 26 '12 at 16:46
I like this one a lot and have started to use it in my documents. Thanks!
– adl
Jan 26 '12 at 16:46
This looks seriously good in documents. Thanks!
– tchakravarty
Jul 25 '12 at 6:53
This looks seriously good in documents. Thanks!
– tchakravarty
Jul 25 '12 at 6:53
Just had a request on TeXwelt.de to have the box in twocolumn mode taking up just one column. Basically,
s/textwidth/columnwidth/g
. Can you add a line explaining and maybe another screenshot?– Johannes_B
Feb 13 '15 at 16:44
Just had a request on TeXwelt.de to have the box in twocolumn mode taking up just one column. Basically,
s/textwidth/columnwidth/g
. Can you add a line explaining and maybe another screenshot?– Johannes_B
Feb 13 '15 at 16:44
@Johannes_B Feel free to edit the answer with that change. As this is over three years old, I don't feel able to resurrect it myself.
– Loop Space
Feb 14 '15 at 19:34
@Johannes_B Feel free to edit the answer with that change. As this is over three years old, I don't feel able to resurrect it myself.
– Loop Space
Feb 14 '15 at 19:34
1
1
@Johannes_B @LoopSpace This is great! This creates no spacing between paragraphs within the block quote, however. How can I modify it so that there is normal spacing between paragraphs within the fancyquotes environment? I tried adding
setlength{baselineskip}{16pt}
and setlength{parskip}{baselineskip}
but neither one worked.– incandescentman
Dec 21 '16 at 5:31
@Johannes_B @LoopSpace This is great! This creates no spacing between paragraphs within the block quote, however. How can I modify it so that there is normal spacing between paragraphs within the fancyquotes environment? I tried adding
setlength{baselineskip}{16pt}
and setlength{parskip}{baselineskip}
but neither one worked.– incandescentman
Dec 21 '16 at 5:31
add a comment |
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine}
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{framed}
newcommand*openquote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{``}}}
newcommand*closequote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{''}}}
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
makeatletter
newifif@right
defshadequote{@righttrueshadequote@i}
defshadequote@i{begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
defendshadequote{%
if@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
@namedef{shadequote*}{@rightfalseshadequote@i}
@namedef{endshadequote*}{endshadequote}
makeatother
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote*}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote*}
begin{shadequote}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.paremph{Douglas Adams}
end{shadequote}
end{document}
Using your code in a minimal example works great, but when I copy it to a large document I work on I get the error "You can't use 'spacefactor' in vertical mode". Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
– lumbric
Mar 21 '12 at 22:39
you'd forgotten themakeatletter
...makeatother
– Herbert
Mar 22 '12 at 11:09
Thanks a lot! It took me quite a while to figure out what happend, but you were right, I messed up themakeatletter
andmakeatother
commands. This happend after exporting some code from LyX, at this step LyX put some additionalmakeatletter
andmakeatother
around my custom code.
– lumbric
Mar 26 '12 at 21:22
If there is a line break before the closing quote, it looks a bit strange. I don't have a real good suggestion, but I think placing simple anolinebreak
makes things a bit better. This means one would have to replace the lineif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
bynolinebreakif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
. This is a comment and not an edit, because I'm unsure if it's the best solution.
– lumbric
Mar 28 '12 at 20:28
I'm trying to use this in my thesis which is based onclassicthesis
but the problem is, it mess with all my fonts and change them. What am I doing wrong here? The same holds for @Herbert 's answer.
– Pouya
Sep 25 '13 at 15:31
add a comment |
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine}
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{framed}
newcommand*openquote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{``}}}
newcommand*closequote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{''}}}
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
makeatletter
newifif@right
defshadequote{@righttrueshadequote@i}
defshadequote@i{begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
defendshadequote{%
if@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
@namedef{shadequote*}{@rightfalseshadequote@i}
@namedef{endshadequote*}{endshadequote}
makeatother
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote*}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote*}
begin{shadequote}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.paremph{Douglas Adams}
end{shadequote}
end{document}
Using your code in a minimal example works great, but when I copy it to a large document I work on I get the error "You can't use 'spacefactor' in vertical mode". Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
– lumbric
Mar 21 '12 at 22:39
you'd forgotten themakeatletter
...makeatother
– Herbert
Mar 22 '12 at 11:09
Thanks a lot! It took me quite a while to figure out what happend, but you were right, I messed up themakeatletter
andmakeatother
commands. This happend after exporting some code from LyX, at this step LyX put some additionalmakeatletter
andmakeatother
around my custom code.
– lumbric
Mar 26 '12 at 21:22
If there is a line break before the closing quote, it looks a bit strange. I don't have a real good suggestion, but I think placing simple anolinebreak
makes things a bit better. This means one would have to replace the lineif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
bynolinebreakif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
. This is a comment and not an edit, because I'm unsure if it's the best solution.
– lumbric
Mar 28 '12 at 20:28
I'm trying to use this in my thesis which is based onclassicthesis
but the problem is, it mess with all my fonts and change them. What am I doing wrong here? The same holds for @Herbert 's answer.
– Pouya
Sep 25 '13 at 15:31
add a comment |
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine}
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{framed}
newcommand*openquote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{``}}}
newcommand*closequote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{''}}}
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
makeatletter
newifif@right
defshadequote{@righttrueshadequote@i}
defshadequote@i{begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
defendshadequote{%
if@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
@namedef{shadequote*}{@rightfalseshadequote@i}
@namedef{endshadequote*}{endshadequote}
makeatother
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote*}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote*}
begin{shadequote}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.paremph{Douglas Adams}
end{shadequote}
end{document}
documentclass[12pt]{article}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage{libertine}
usepackage{graphicx}
usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
usepackage{framed}
newcommand*openquote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{``}}}
newcommand*closequote{makebox(25,-22){scalebox{5}{''}}}
colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}
makeatletter
newifif@right
defshadequote{@righttrueshadequote@i}
defshadequote@i{begin{snugshade}begin{quote}openquote}
defendshadequote{%
if@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
@namedef{shadequote*}{@rightfalseshadequote@i}
@namedef{endshadequote*}{endshadequote}
makeatother
begin{document}
begin{shadequote}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote}
begin{shadequote*}
Some quoted words
end{shadequote*}
begin{shadequote}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.paremph{Douglas Adams}
end{shadequote}
end{document}
answered Apr 30 '11 at 6:01
HerbertHerbert
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Using your code in a minimal example works great, but when I copy it to a large document I work on I get the error "You can't use 'spacefactor' in vertical mode". Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
– lumbric
Mar 21 '12 at 22:39
you'd forgotten themakeatletter
...makeatother
– Herbert
Mar 22 '12 at 11:09
Thanks a lot! It took me quite a while to figure out what happend, but you were right, I messed up themakeatletter
andmakeatother
commands. This happend after exporting some code from LyX, at this step LyX put some additionalmakeatletter
andmakeatother
around my custom code.
– lumbric
Mar 26 '12 at 21:22
If there is a line break before the closing quote, it looks a bit strange. I don't have a real good suggestion, but I think placing simple anolinebreak
makes things a bit better. This means one would have to replace the lineif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
bynolinebreakif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
. This is a comment and not an edit, because I'm unsure if it's the best solution.
– lumbric
Mar 28 '12 at 20:28
I'm trying to use this in my thesis which is based onclassicthesis
but the problem is, it mess with all my fonts and change them. What am I doing wrong here? The same holds for @Herbert 's answer.
– Pouya
Sep 25 '13 at 15:31
add a comment |
Using your code in a minimal example works great, but when I copy it to a large document I work on I get the error "You can't use 'spacefactor' in vertical mode". Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
– lumbric
Mar 21 '12 at 22:39
you'd forgotten themakeatletter
...makeatother
– Herbert
Mar 22 '12 at 11:09
Thanks a lot! It took me quite a while to figure out what happend, but you were right, I messed up themakeatletter
andmakeatother
commands. This happend after exporting some code from LyX, at this step LyX put some additionalmakeatletter
andmakeatother
around my custom code.
– lumbric
Mar 26 '12 at 21:22
If there is a line break before the closing quote, it looks a bit strange. I don't have a real good suggestion, but I think placing simple anolinebreak
makes things a bit better. This means one would have to replace the lineif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
bynolinebreakif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
. This is a comment and not an edit, because I'm unsure if it's the best solution.
– lumbric
Mar 28 '12 at 20:28
I'm trying to use this in my thesis which is based onclassicthesis
but the problem is, it mess with all my fonts and change them. What am I doing wrong here? The same holds for @Herbert 's answer.
– Pouya
Sep 25 '13 at 15:31
Using your code in a minimal example works great, but when I copy it to a large document I work on I get the error "You can't use 'spacefactor' in vertical mode". Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
– lumbric
Mar 21 '12 at 22:39
Using your code in a minimal example works great, but when I copy it to a large document I work on I get the error "You can't use 'spacefactor' in vertical mode". Do you have any idea how to resolve this problem? Thanks!
– lumbric
Mar 21 '12 at 22:39
you'd forgotten the
makeatletter
... makeatother
– Herbert
Mar 22 '12 at 11:09
you'd forgotten the
makeatletter
... makeatother
– Herbert
Mar 22 '12 at 11:09
Thanks a lot! It took me quite a while to figure out what happend, but you were right, I messed up the
makeatletter
and makeatother
commands. This happend after exporting some code from LyX, at this step LyX put some additional makeatletter
and makeatother
around my custom code.– lumbric
Mar 26 '12 at 21:22
Thanks a lot! It took me quite a while to figure out what happend, but you were right, I messed up the
makeatletter
and makeatother
commands. This happend after exporting some code from LyX, at this step LyX put some additional makeatletter
and makeatother
around my custom code.– lumbric
Mar 26 '12 at 21:22
If there is a line break before the closing quote, it looks a bit strange. I don't have a real good suggestion, but I think placing simple a
nolinebreak
makes things a bit better. This means one would have to replace the line if@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
by nolinebreakif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
. This is a comment and not an edit, because I'm unsure if it's the best solution.– lumbric
Mar 28 '12 at 20:28
If there is a line break before the closing quote, it looks a bit strange. I don't have a real good suggestion, but I think placing simple a
nolinebreak
makes things a bit better. This means one would have to replace the line if@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
by nolinebreakif@righthfillficlosequoteend{quote}end{snugshade}}
. This is a comment and not an edit, because I'm unsure if it's the best solution.– lumbric
Mar 28 '12 at 20:28
I'm trying to use this in my thesis which is based on
classicthesis
but the problem is, it mess with all my fonts and change them. What am I doing wrong here? The same holds for @Herbert 's answer.– Pouya
Sep 25 '13 at 15:31
I'm trying to use this in my thesis which is based on
classicthesis
but the problem is, it mess with all my fonts and change them. What am I doing wrong here? The same holds for @Herbert 's answer.– Pouya
Sep 25 '13 at 15:31
add a comment |
Had I known about this question, I would not have written cfr-dquote
. However, I didn't, so I did. Here's a lightly modified version of my package for public consumption or rejection.
The package defines a command, dquote[<dimension>]{<long text>}{<short text}
which is intended to be used so that <dimension>
is the width desired, <long text>
is the quotation and <short text>
is the attribution.
The package is based on TikZ and the appearance can be customised using the usual key-value interface. For example, I've never used this with a coloured background to the quotation, but that is easy to achieve by simply altering quote style
.
For example,
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
produces the following output
The package consists of two files, cfr-dquote.sty
and cfr-dquote.tex
. In theory, the latter can be compiled alone, since it uses the standalone
class, but don't be tempted to use it this way - that's just to make tweaks and debugging easier.
Complete code:
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.sty}
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% cfr-dquote.sty
NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}% LaTeX 2.09 can't be used (nor non-LaTeX)
[1994/12/01]% LaTeX date must December 1994 or later
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesPackageSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.sty 7799 2018-07-20 01:52:15Z cfr $}
RequirePackage{xcolor,pifont,standalone,xparse,tikz}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarypicfix.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{picfix}}{}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarycfrexternal.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{cfrexternal}}{usetikzlibrary{external}}
NewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{normalfontlarge}
NewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{normalfontnormalsize}
AtBeginDocument{%
newlengthcfrdquoteparskipsetlengthcfrdquoteparskip{parskip}%
newlengthcfrdquoteparindentsetlengthcfrdquoteparindent{parindent}}
% BEGIN defaults
tikzset{%
dquote text font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote attrib font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
#1
}
},
/cfr-dquote/quote style/.style={align=justify, color=blue!50!black},
/cfr-dquote/quote/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquotetextfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/attrib/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquoteattribfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/quote mark/.style={color=cfrdquotecolor, opacity=cfrdquoteopacity, font=cfrdquotesize, scale=cfrdquotescale},
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width/.store in=cfrdquotewidth,
text/.store in=cfrdquotetext,
attribution/.store in=cfrdquoteattrib,
width=120mm,
text={Does dim o gwbl yn y fan hon!},
attribution={Neb},
marks/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/quote marks/.cd,
#1
}
},
quote marks/size/.store in=cfrdquotesize,
quote marks/scale/.store in=cfrdquotescale,
quote marks/color/.store in=cfrdquotecolor,
quote marks/opacity/.store in=cfrdquoteopacity,
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!cyan,
opacity=.25,
},
}
% END defaults
% BEGIN defn dquote
NewDocumentCommanddquote { O {120mm} +m m }{%
tikzset{%
external/export next=false,
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width={#1},
text={setlengthparskip{cfrdquoteparskip}setlengthparindent{cfrdquoteparindent}#2},
attribution={#3}
}%
input{cfr-dquote}%
}
% END defn dquote
endinput
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.tex}
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% arara: pdflatex: { synctex: true }
%BEGIN preamble
csname standaloneignoreendcsname
pdfminorversion=7
PassOptionsToPackage{rgb}{xcolor}
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesFileSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.tex 7800 2018-07-20 01:58:28Z cfr $}
documentclass[tikz,12pt]{standalone}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
usepackage{pifont,biblatex}
% END preamble
begin{document}%
begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0pt]
node (quotation) [/cfr-dquote/quote, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquotetext};
node (attrib) [/cfr-dquote/attrib, below=of quotation, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquoteattrib};
node (qlhs) [left=of quotation.north west, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=.25em, yshift=.25em, anchor=north east] {ding{123}};
node (qrhs) [right=of quotation.south east, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=-.25em, yshift=-.75em, anchor=south west] {ding{124}};
pgfresetboundingbox
useasboundingbox (attrib.south -| qlhs.west) rectangle (quotation.north -| qrhs.east);
end{tikzpicture}%
end{document}
end{filecontents}
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
add a comment |
Had I known about this question, I would not have written cfr-dquote
. However, I didn't, so I did. Here's a lightly modified version of my package for public consumption or rejection.
The package defines a command, dquote[<dimension>]{<long text>}{<short text}
which is intended to be used so that <dimension>
is the width desired, <long text>
is the quotation and <short text>
is the attribution.
The package is based on TikZ and the appearance can be customised using the usual key-value interface. For example, I've never used this with a coloured background to the quotation, but that is easy to achieve by simply altering quote style
.
For example,
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
produces the following output
The package consists of two files, cfr-dquote.sty
and cfr-dquote.tex
. In theory, the latter can be compiled alone, since it uses the standalone
class, but don't be tempted to use it this way - that's just to make tweaks and debugging easier.
Complete code:
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.sty}
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% cfr-dquote.sty
NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}% LaTeX 2.09 can't be used (nor non-LaTeX)
[1994/12/01]% LaTeX date must December 1994 or later
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesPackageSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.sty 7799 2018-07-20 01:52:15Z cfr $}
RequirePackage{xcolor,pifont,standalone,xparse,tikz}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarypicfix.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{picfix}}{}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarycfrexternal.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{cfrexternal}}{usetikzlibrary{external}}
NewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{normalfontlarge}
NewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{normalfontnormalsize}
AtBeginDocument{%
newlengthcfrdquoteparskipsetlengthcfrdquoteparskip{parskip}%
newlengthcfrdquoteparindentsetlengthcfrdquoteparindent{parindent}}
% BEGIN defaults
tikzset{%
dquote text font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote attrib font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
#1
}
},
/cfr-dquote/quote style/.style={align=justify, color=blue!50!black},
/cfr-dquote/quote/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquotetextfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/attrib/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquoteattribfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/quote mark/.style={color=cfrdquotecolor, opacity=cfrdquoteopacity, font=cfrdquotesize, scale=cfrdquotescale},
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width/.store in=cfrdquotewidth,
text/.store in=cfrdquotetext,
attribution/.store in=cfrdquoteattrib,
width=120mm,
text={Does dim o gwbl yn y fan hon!},
attribution={Neb},
marks/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/quote marks/.cd,
#1
}
},
quote marks/size/.store in=cfrdquotesize,
quote marks/scale/.store in=cfrdquotescale,
quote marks/color/.store in=cfrdquotecolor,
quote marks/opacity/.store in=cfrdquoteopacity,
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!cyan,
opacity=.25,
},
}
% END defaults
% BEGIN defn dquote
NewDocumentCommanddquote { O {120mm} +m m }{%
tikzset{%
external/export next=false,
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width={#1},
text={setlengthparskip{cfrdquoteparskip}setlengthparindent{cfrdquoteparindent}#2},
attribution={#3}
}%
input{cfr-dquote}%
}
% END defn dquote
endinput
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.tex}
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% arara: pdflatex: { synctex: true }
%BEGIN preamble
csname standaloneignoreendcsname
pdfminorversion=7
PassOptionsToPackage{rgb}{xcolor}
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesFileSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.tex 7800 2018-07-20 01:58:28Z cfr $}
documentclass[tikz,12pt]{standalone}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
usepackage{pifont,biblatex}
% END preamble
begin{document}%
begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0pt]
node (quotation) [/cfr-dquote/quote, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquotetext};
node (attrib) [/cfr-dquote/attrib, below=of quotation, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquoteattrib};
node (qlhs) [left=of quotation.north west, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=.25em, yshift=.25em, anchor=north east] {ding{123}};
node (qrhs) [right=of quotation.south east, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=-.25em, yshift=-.75em, anchor=south west] {ding{124}};
pgfresetboundingbox
useasboundingbox (attrib.south -| qlhs.west) rectangle (quotation.north -| qrhs.east);
end{tikzpicture}%
end{document}
end{filecontents}
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
add a comment |
Had I known about this question, I would not have written cfr-dquote
. However, I didn't, so I did. Here's a lightly modified version of my package for public consumption or rejection.
The package defines a command, dquote[<dimension>]{<long text>}{<short text}
which is intended to be used so that <dimension>
is the width desired, <long text>
is the quotation and <short text>
is the attribution.
The package is based on TikZ and the appearance can be customised using the usual key-value interface. For example, I've never used this with a coloured background to the quotation, but that is easy to achieve by simply altering quote style
.
For example,
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
produces the following output
The package consists of two files, cfr-dquote.sty
and cfr-dquote.tex
. In theory, the latter can be compiled alone, since it uses the standalone
class, but don't be tempted to use it this way - that's just to make tweaks and debugging easier.
Complete code:
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.sty}
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% cfr-dquote.sty
NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}% LaTeX 2.09 can't be used (nor non-LaTeX)
[1994/12/01]% LaTeX date must December 1994 or later
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesPackageSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.sty 7799 2018-07-20 01:52:15Z cfr $}
RequirePackage{xcolor,pifont,standalone,xparse,tikz}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarypicfix.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{picfix}}{}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarycfrexternal.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{cfrexternal}}{usetikzlibrary{external}}
NewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{normalfontlarge}
NewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{normalfontnormalsize}
AtBeginDocument{%
newlengthcfrdquoteparskipsetlengthcfrdquoteparskip{parskip}%
newlengthcfrdquoteparindentsetlengthcfrdquoteparindent{parindent}}
% BEGIN defaults
tikzset{%
dquote text font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote attrib font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
#1
}
},
/cfr-dquote/quote style/.style={align=justify, color=blue!50!black},
/cfr-dquote/quote/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquotetextfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/attrib/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquoteattribfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/quote mark/.style={color=cfrdquotecolor, opacity=cfrdquoteopacity, font=cfrdquotesize, scale=cfrdquotescale},
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width/.store in=cfrdquotewidth,
text/.store in=cfrdquotetext,
attribution/.store in=cfrdquoteattrib,
width=120mm,
text={Does dim o gwbl yn y fan hon!},
attribution={Neb},
marks/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/quote marks/.cd,
#1
}
},
quote marks/size/.store in=cfrdquotesize,
quote marks/scale/.store in=cfrdquotescale,
quote marks/color/.store in=cfrdquotecolor,
quote marks/opacity/.store in=cfrdquoteopacity,
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!cyan,
opacity=.25,
},
}
% END defaults
% BEGIN defn dquote
NewDocumentCommanddquote { O {120mm} +m m }{%
tikzset{%
external/export next=false,
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width={#1},
text={setlengthparskip{cfrdquoteparskip}setlengthparindent{cfrdquoteparindent}#2},
attribution={#3}
}%
input{cfr-dquote}%
}
% END defn dquote
endinput
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.tex}
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% arara: pdflatex: { synctex: true }
%BEGIN preamble
csname standaloneignoreendcsname
pdfminorversion=7
PassOptionsToPackage{rgb}{xcolor}
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesFileSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.tex 7800 2018-07-20 01:58:28Z cfr $}
documentclass[tikz,12pt]{standalone}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
usepackage{pifont,biblatex}
% END preamble
begin{document}%
begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0pt]
node (quotation) [/cfr-dquote/quote, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquotetext};
node (attrib) [/cfr-dquote/attrib, below=of quotation, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquoteattrib};
node (qlhs) [left=of quotation.north west, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=.25em, yshift=.25em, anchor=north east] {ding{123}};
node (qrhs) [right=of quotation.south east, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=-.25em, yshift=-.75em, anchor=south west] {ding{124}};
pgfresetboundingbox
useasboundingbox (attrib.south -| qlhs.west) rectangle (quotation.north -| qrhs.east);
end{tikzpicture}%
end{document}
end{filecontents}
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
Had I known about this question, I would not have written cfr-dquote
. However, I didn't, so I did. Here's a lightly modified version of my package for public consumption or rejection.
The package defines a command, dquote[<dimension>]{<long text>}{<short text}
which is intended to be used so that <dimension>
is the width desired, <long text>
is the quotation and <short text>
is the attribution.
The package is based on TikZ and the appearance can be customised using the usual key-value interface. For example, I've never used this with a coloured background to the quotation, but that is easy to achieve by simply altering quote style
.
For example,
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
end{document}
produces the following output
The package consists of two files, cfr-dquote.sty
and cfr-dquote.tex
. In theory, the latter can be compiled alone, since it uses the standalone
class, but don't be tempted to use it this way - that's just to make tweaks and debugging easier.
Complete code:
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.sty}
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% cfr-dquote.sty
NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}% LaTeX 2.09 can't be used (nor non-LaTeX)
[1994/12/01]% LaTeX date must December 1994 or later
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesPackageSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.sty 7799 2018-07-20 01:52:15Z cfr $}
RequirePackage{xcolor,pifont,standalone,xparse,tikz}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarypicfix.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{picfix}}{}
IfFileExists{tikzlibrarycfrexternal.code.tex}{usetikzlibrary{cfrexternal}}{usetikzlibrary{external}}
NewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{normalfontlarge}
NewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{normalfontnormalsize}
AtBeginDocument{%
newlengthcfrdquoteparskipsetlengthcfrdquoteparskip{parskip}%
newlengthcfrdquoteparindentsetlengthcfrdquoteparindent{parindent}}
% BEGIN defaults
tikzset{%
dquote text font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquotetextfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote attrib font/.code={%
RenewDocumentCommanddquoteattribfonthook{}{#1}
},
dquote/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
#1
}
},
/cfr-dquote/quote style/.style={align=justify, color=blue!50!black},
/cfr-dquote/quote/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquotetextfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/attrib/.style={/cfr-dquote/quote style, font=dquoteattribfonthook},
/cfr-dquote/quote mark/.style={color=cfrdquotecolor, opacity=cfrdquoteopacity, font=cfrdquotesize, scale=cfrdquotescale},
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width/.store in=cfrdquotewidth,
text/.store in=cfrdquotetext,
attribution/.store in=cfrdquoteattrib,
width=120mm,
text={Does dim o gwbl yn y fan hon!},
attribution={Neb},
marks/.code={%
tikzset{%
/cfr-dquote/quote marks/.cd,
#1
}
},
quote marks/size/.store in=cfrdquotesize,
quote marks/scale/.store in=cfrdquotescale,
quote marks/color/.store in=cfrdquotecolor,
quote marks/opacity/.store in=cfrdquoteopacity,
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!cyan,
opacity=.25,
},
}
% END defaults
% BEGIN defn dquote
NewDocumentCommanddquote { O {120mm} +m m }{%
tikzset{%
external/export next=false,
/cfr-dquote/.cd,
width={#1},
text={setlengthparskip{cfrdquoteparskip}setlengthparindent{cfrdquoteparindent}#2},
attribution={#3}
}%
input{cfr-dquote}%
}
% END defn dquote
endinput
end{filecontents}
begin{filecontents}{cfr-dquote.tex}
% !TEX TS-program = pdflatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
% arara: pdflatex: { synctex: true }
%BEGIN preamble
csname standaloneignoreendcsname
pdfminorversion=7
PassOptionsToPackage{rgb}{xcolor}
RequirePackage{svn-prov}
ProvidesFileSVN{$Id: cfr-dquote.tex 7800 2018-07-20 01:58:28Z cfr $}
documentclass[tikz,12pt]{standalone}
usetikzlibrary{calc,positioning,backgrounds}
usepackage{pifont,biblatex}
% END preamble
begin{document}%
begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=0pt]
node (quotation) [/cfr-dquote/quote, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquotetext};
node (attrib) [/cfr-dquote/attrib, below=of quotation, text width=cfrdquotewidth] {cfrdquoteattrib};
node (qlhs) [left=of quotation.north west, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=.25em, yshift=.25em, anchor=north east] {ding{123}};
node (qrhs) [right=of quotation.south east, /cfr-dquote/quote mark, xshift=-.25em, yshift=-.75em, anchor=south west] {ding{124}};
pgfresetboundingbox
useasboundingbox (attrib.south -| qlhs.west) rectangle (quotation.north -| qrhs.east);
end{tikzpicture}%
end{document}
end{filecontents}
documentclass[a4paper,british]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{geometry,babel,csquotes}
usepackage{cfr-lm}
usepackage{cfr-dquote}
MakeAutoQuote{‘}{’}
MakeAutoQuote*{“}{”}
begin{document}
tikzset{%
dquote text font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontLargeupshape,
dquote attrib font=fontfamily{LobsterTwo-LF}selectfontHugeitshape,
dquote={
quote style/.style={align=justify, fill=blue!50!cyan, fill opacity=.2, text opacity=1, text=blue!15!darkgray},
marks={
size=Huge,
scale=4,
color=blue!50!darkgray,
opacity=.5,
},
},
}%
dquote{%
‘Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice. ‘I'm glad they've begun asking riddles --- I believe I can guess that,’ she added aloud.
‘Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
‘Exactly so,’ said Alice.
‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
‘I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least --- at least I mean what I say --- that's the same thing, you know.’
‘Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘Why, you might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, ‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!’
‘You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, which seemed to be talking in its sleep, ‘that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!’
}{Lewis Carroll}
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I know that this is old, but I may as well share my simple attempt.
Note: requires usepackage{xcolor}
The command itself:
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
Minimum working example:
documentclass{article}
usepackage{xcolor}
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
begin{document}
quotebox{Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.}
end{document}
Example:
New contributor
1
Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please --as usual here -- make your code snippet compilable for a fast proof?
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Sorry... What do you mean by snippet compatible? @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
1 hour ago
Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it withdocumentclass{...}
, the requiredusepackage
's,begin{document}
, andend{document}
. That is called a minimal working example (MWE).
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Done, thank you. @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
31 mins ago
add a comment |
I know that this is old, but I may as well share my simple attempt.
Note: requires usepackage{xcolor}
The command itself:
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
Minimum working example:
documentclass{article}
usepackage{xcolor}
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
begin{document}
quotebox{Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.}
end{document}
Example:
New contributor
1
Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please --as usual here -- make your code snippet compilable for a fast proof?
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Sorry... What do you mean by snippet compatible? @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
1 hour ago
Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it withdocumentclass{...}
, the requiredusepackage
's,begin{document}
, andend{document}
. That is called a minimal working example (MWE).
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Done, thank you. @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
31 mins ago
add a comment |
I know that this is old, but I may as well share my simple attempt.
Note: requires usepackage{xcolor}
The command itself:
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
Minimum working example:
documentclass{article}
usepackage{xcolor}
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
begin{document}
quotebox{Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.}
end{document}
Example:
New contributor
I know that this is old, but I may as well share my simple attempt.
Note: requires usepackage{xcolor}
The command itself:
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
Minimum working example:
documentclass{article}
usepackage{xcolor}
newcommand{quotebox}[1]{begin{center}fcolorbox{white}{blue!15!gray!15}{begin{minipage}{0.9linewidth}vspace{10pt}centerbegin{minipage}{0.8linewidth}{spaceHuge``}{#1}{hspace{1.5em}breaknullHugehfill''}end{minipage}smallbreakend{minipage}}end{center}}
begin{document}
quotebox{Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.}
end{document}
Example:
New contributor
edited 31 mins ago
New contributor
answered 2 hours ago
Ender - Joshua PritskerEnder - Joshua Pritsker
112
112
New contributor
New contributor
1
Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please --as usual here -- make your code snippet compilable for a fast proof?
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Sorry... What do you mean by snippet compatible? @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
1 hour ago
Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it withdocumentclass{...}
, the requiredusepackage
's,begin{document}
, andend{document}
. That is called a minimal working example (MWE).
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Done, thank you. @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
31 mins ago
add a comment |
1
Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please --as usual here -- make your code snippet compilable for a fast proof?
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Sorry... What do you mean by snippet compatible? @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
1 hour ago
Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it withdocumentclass{...}
, the requiredusepackage
's,begin{document}
, andend{document}
. That is called a minimal working example (MWE).
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Done, thank you. @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
31 mins ago
1
1
Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please --as usual here -- make your code snippet compilable for a fast proof?
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Welcome to TeX.SE! Can you please --as usual here -- make your code snippet compilable for a fast proof?
– Kurt
1 hour ago
Sorry... What do you mean by snippet compatible? @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
1 hour ago
Sorry... What do you mean by snippet compatible? @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
1 hour ago
Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with
documentclass{...}
, the required usepackage
's, begin{document}
, and end{document}
. That is called a minimal working example (MWE).– Kurt
1 hour ago
Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with
documentclass{...}
, the required usepackage
's, begin{document}
, and end{document}
. That is called a minimal working example (MWE).– Kurt
1 hour ago
Done, thank you. @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
31 mins ago
Done, thank you. @Kurt
– Ender - Joshua Pritsker
31 mins ago
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JFYI: See now also Block quote with big quotation marks and opening quote on bottom.
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