Page Layout ⇒ Making quote environment wider

[Yeats]

Hi,
I am trying to make my quotes wider then they are by default.

Here is what I came up with until now:

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\let\oldquote\quote
\renewcommand\quote{\setlength{\textwidth}{12cm}\oldquote}

This actually does nothing

If I change the value to 5cm for example, quote width stay the same.

Anyone has an idea how to change quote width?

Tx!

[localghost]

The quote environment internally is a list. Please give a more specific description of what you want to achieve (i. e. level of indentation on both or a single side). A short example with your document settings (paper and page geometry) would help a lot.


Best regards
Thorsten

[Yeats]

The quote environment internally is a list. Please give a more specific description of what you want to achieve (i. e. level of indentation on both or a single side). A short example with your document settings (paper and page geometry) would help a lot.


Best regards
Thorsten

Hi, thank you for your answer. Well basically what I want is that all quotes on all my pages be more wide then they are. Lets say that default indentation on both left and the right side is 2 cm. I want to make that 1 cm or 0.5 cm. I would try with different widths. I just need a way to change it, thats it.

Here is an example with settings:

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,left=33mm,right=28mm,top=30mm,bottom=30mm]{geometry}

[localghost]

Well, here we go. The code below shows the declaration of the quote environment and the line where you can adjust the margins.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,left=33mm,right=28mm,top=30mm,bottom=30mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\renewenvironment{quote}{%
  \list{}{%
    \leftmargin0.5cm   % this is the adjusting screw
    \rightmargin\leftmargin
  }
  \item\relax
}
{\endlist}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \begin{quote}
    \blindtext
  \end{quote}

  \blindtext
\end{document}

[Yeats]

Well, here we go. The code below shows the declaration of the quote environment and the line where you can adjust the margins.

Thanks a lot! No wonder I couldn't do it myself... looks rather complicated.

[localghost]

[...] looks rather complicated.

Not really if you know how to handle list environments like itemize and where to look for such default declarations like in the source code of the class file.

[Yeats]

I tried with just this part of code:

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\renewenvironment{quote}{%
  \list{}{%
    \leftmargin0.5cm   % this is the adjusting screw
    \rightmargin\leftmargin
  }
  \item\relax
}
{\endlist}

and that did the work.

I see that the key is to use \renevenvironment instead \renewcommand that I was trying to do.

What exactly do you achieve with blindtext package again?

[localghost]

[...] I see that the key is to use \renevenvironment instead \renewcommand that I was trying to do. [...]

Of course that's the point because »quote« is an environment and not a command. Perhaps you should do some basic reading. This can't do any harm even if you're not going to use LaTeX intensively.

[...] What exactly do you achieve with blindtext package again?

I think this should be self-explanatory. It creates some text passages to demonstrate how things look. In this case it generates the preceding and following paragraph of the quote environment as well as its content with the \blindtext command. The blindtext package is perfect for creating a MWE.

[Yeats]

Perhaps you should do some basic reading. This can't do any harm even if you're not going to use LaTeX intensively.

Well I do try to improve my Latex knowledge although I wont need much more than I know now (I am Geisteswissenschaftler, - don't know the english word lol).

Anyway there are few things higher on my todo list, but after that I do plan to expand my knowledge, just for the sake of it.

[localghost]

[...] I am Geisteswissenschaftler, - don't know the english word lol. [...]

My dictionary say »arts scholar«.

[...] Anyway there are few things higher on my todo list, but after that I do plan to expand my knowledge, just for the sake of it.

I see. In your discipline there are higher priorities. In my university life (physics) LaTeX occupied a big part. Although you can learn much by searching the forum, it might be good to have a book about practical LaTeX on the desk. There are some good German books (e. g. »LaTeX - Das Praxisbuch« by E. and M. Niedermair). And they are not so expensive. But all this shall not keep you from posting your requests here.