Making "Quote" style smaller

ednigma · Post by **ednigma** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:56 pm

Hi,

This is probably a noobish question, but how do I override the default "Quote" paragraph environment in LyX, and make all text of the "Quote" type smaller than the default Quote size?

I know that I can select each quote manually and change the font size, but that would be tedious and go against the whole idea of LaTeX/LyX.

Thank you.

- Ed

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Juanjo · Post by **Juanjo** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:33 pm

A way to do that could be as follows: In Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble, copy the lines

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\let\quoteOLD\quote
\def\quote{\quoteOLD\small}

and save. Instead of \small, you could use \footnotesize, \scriptsize or \tiny to get even smaller sizes.

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:38 pm

Hi,

Juanjo's code above will work, just a comment, it could be done without to define an additional macro \quoteOLD:

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\expandafter\def\expandafter\quote\expandafter{\quote\small}

Stefan

ednigma · Post by **ednigma** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:29 pm

Thank you both very much! It works like a charm

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