General ⇒ How to get nice quotation layout in book class

[chr4004]

I know about \quote and \quotation. What I want though is something nice before the actual introduction, not sure yet if even before the toc. I'm using a modified book class called wissdoc.cls.

Any ideas how to get something like an inscription?
Thx

[balf]

I'm not sure of what you want exactly – but the epigraph package might do what you want.hh

B.A.

[chr4004]

Thanks, will look into this.
I thought of something more outstanding like /quotation. Like centering not only horizontally but also vertically. Or does /quotation comes with additionally attributes?

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can create your own quotation environment; in the example below I designed a simple myquote environment:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}%just to generate some text

\newenvironment{myquote}
  {\thispagestyle{empty}\vspace*{\fill}
   \begin{quotation}\noindent\hrulefill\par}
  {\par\noindent\hrulefill\end{quotation}\vspace*{\fill}\newpage}

\begin{document}

\begin{myquote}
  \lipsum[1]
\end{myquote}

\lipsum[1-8]
\end{document}