General ⇒ Quotation on Part page

[Marco110981]

Hey!

I told Latex I want my paper to be split into "Part one" and "Part two". He does it: cool.
Just below the "part one", it leaves the whole page blank: I would like to insert there a quotation. Everythink I insert after the title, is been flushed down, to a next page.

How could I explain to the software I would like my quotation right below the "Part one" title?
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
thanks

Marco

[gmedina]

Hi,

I suggest you to use the epigraph package. Refer to the package documentation for further information; particularly page 6, section 2.5 Epigraphs on Part pages

[moonlight]

I'm not sure if this will do exactly what you want, but you could give it a try.

Import the quotchap package before the start of your document, as so:

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\usepackage[grey, helvetica]{quotchap}

You can change of course those parameters in between the square brackets later if this type of solution suits you. Next insert the following code in your document:

\begin{savequote}[14.5pc]\sffamily
Your clever quote goes here.\qauthor{\textbf{The author name here}}
\end{savequote}
\chapter{Your chapter title here}

I hope this will help.

Cordially,
moonlight.

[Marco110981]

Firstly thanks indeed for your reply.

I have been trying both option, but none of them seem to work.
Regarding the epigraph, Latex tells me: "Env. epigraphs undefined"
Is he kidding me?

I will try to read the manual epigraph again (thanks for posting it by the way) and see what happens.
Feel fry to post more.

Bye from rainy Lisbon
M

[localghost]

[...] Regarding the epigraph, Latex tells me: "Env. epigraphs undefined" [...]

I would like to see this error message produced by a minimal working example (MWE).


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[gmedina]

Hi,

...I have been trying both option, but none of them seem to work...

The epigraph package should do the job, if properly used. Here it is a complete compilable example:

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\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage{epigraph}
\usepackage{lipsum}%just to generate some text

\setlength\epigraphwidth{\linewidth}%sets the width of the epigraph
\makeatletter
  \let\@epipart\@endpart
  \renewcommand{\@endpart}{\thispagestyle{epigraph}\@epipart}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\epigraphhead[400]{\lipsum[1]}%the first argument controls the vertical position
                             %of the epigraph; the second argument contains the epigraph itself
\part{Dummy part one}
\chapter{First chapter}

\cleardoublepage%use this command to prevent undesired results when a new epigraph is going to be used
\epigraphhead[400]{\lipsum[1]}
\part{Dummy part two}
\chapter{Second chapter}

\end{document}