Page Layout ⇒ footnote isn't displayed when it's inside shadequote (block quote)

[thinkpadder]

I'm trying to put an aphorism (a saying with a name underneath) inside a box, i.e. to make it more visible, using the code below, which I've found on the Internet. The aphorism is put inside a shadequote and it works quite fine. Now I'd like to add a footnote to it, to be able to show the aphorism's translation at the bottom. But when I add it inside the shadequote, it's not displayed at the bottom. How to make the footnote displayed at the bottom, even when it's inside the shadequote?

Note: I'm using the code below only because I wanted to accomplish the task which is as simple as making an aphorism look like an aphorism. Otherwise, this code is doing more than that. It's adding colored background and big double quotes, which I don't really need. I've tried some simpler codes but they didn't work, this one worked. Reminder: I'm a novice at LaTeX If you can suggest any code simpler than this, I'd like to try it.

Note 2: The "run latex here" button doesn't work.

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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
\newif\if@right
\def\shadequote{\@righttrue\shadequote@i}
\def\shadequote@i{\begin{snugshade}\begin{quote}\openquote}
\def\endshadequote{%
  \if@right\hfill\fi\closequote\end{quote}\end{snugshade}}
\@namedef{shadequote*}{\@rightfalse\shadequote@i}
\@namedef{endshadequote*}{\endshadequote}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{shadequote}
  Ignorance is bliss 
\footnote{Unwissenheit ist seligkeit}
  \par\emph{John Doe}
\end{shadequote}

  Ignorance is bliss \footnote{Unwissenheit ist seligkeit}
\par\emph{John Doe}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

A simple workaround could be just using \footnotemark in the quote, and right after the quote \footnotetext{Unwissenheit ist Seligkeit}. That way you ensure the footnote text is printed (without a second marker) and the marker is placed within the quote.

The Run LaTeX here button works for me. Perhaps your browser has Javascript blocked or not enabled.

Stefan

[thinkpadder]

I'm trying to right-align the text at the bottom so that it looks like this:



To do that I've used the ragged2e package and used the \begin{FlushRight} tags like so:

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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
\newif\if@right
\def\shadequote{\@righttrue\shadequote@i}
\def\shadequote@i{\begin{snugshade}\begin{quote}\openquote}
\def\endshadequote{%
  \if@right\hfill\fi\closequote\end{quote}\end{snugshade}}
\@namedef{shadequote*}{\@rightfalse\shadequote@i}
\@namedef{endshadequote*}{\endshadequote}
\makeatother

% A package to right or left align the text
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\begin{document}

\begin{shadequote}
  Ignorance is bliss 
\footnote{Unwissenheit ist seligkeit}
  \par
  \begin{FlushRight}  
  \emph{John Doe}
 \end{FlushRight}  
\end{shadequote}


\end{document}

But it throws the double quote under.

How to right-align the text, without causing the double quote to go under?

[Ijon Tichy]

The FlushRight environment ends before the quote is inserted. So this cannot be used.

Use \RaggedLeft or \raggedleft instead of an environment and the star variant of shadequote:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{framed}
\usepackage[main=ngerman,english]{babel}

\newcommand*\openquote{\makebox(25,-22){\scalebox{5}{``}}}
\newcommand*\closequote{\makebox(25,-22){\scalebox{5}{''}}}
\colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}

\makeatletter
\newif\if@right
\def\shadequote{\@righttrue\shadequote@i}
\def\shadequote@i{\begin{snugshade}\begin{quote}\openquote}
\def\endshadequote{%
  \if@right\hfill\fi\closequote\end{quote}\end{snugshade}}
\@namedef{shadequote*}{\@rightfalse\shadequote@i}
\@namedef{endshadequote*}{\endshadequote}
\makeatother

% A package to right or left align the text
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\begin{document}

\begin{shadequote*}
  \foreignlanguage{english}{Ignorance is bliss}\footnotemark
  \par
  \RaggedLeft
  \emph{John Doe}
\end{shadequote*}
\footnotetext{Unwissenheit ist Seligkeit}

\end{document}

As an alternative you could use \hspace{0pt plus 1filll} instead of \RaggedLeft, to move a at most one line text to the right.

[thinkpadder]

That works. Particularly,\hspace{0pt plus 1filll} works like a charm. Thanks.