Text Formatting ⇒ singlespace in {quote}, doublespace elsewhere

[saimike]

Preamble: I'm formatting a humanities dissertation so this may seem weird.

I have a lot of quotes from interviews and I want to have them single spaced (intra-paragraph) and doublespaced inter-paragraph. I was able to do this rather well using in my appendix using:

\setlength{\parskip}{11pt}
\singlespacing

Is there a way I can have all my {quote} in singlespace? i.e. whenever I start a \begin{quote}, it will be single spaced with an 11pt \parskip.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

With a consistent macro typesetting software like LaTeX, it's no problem. Just extend the quote environment. A quick addition:

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\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro\quote\singlespace
\makeatother

\makeatletter and \makeatother are just required because @ is a special character, commonly used to mark internal macros, which is therefore not allowed for direct use in documents. This would not be necessary in a style file.

Stefan

[saimike]

Stefan

Awesome, that worked very well!

[saimike]

Stefan

Would this macro affect the inter-paragraph spacing between the quote and the previous or following paragraph?

I am seeing inconsistent spacing when using it with puthesis.cls (https://engineering.purdue.edu/~mark/pu ... thesis.cls).

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I don't think so. Have a look:

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\documentclass[aae,dissertation]{puthesis}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{setspace}
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro\quote\singlespace
\makeatother
\doublespace
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{quote}
  \blindtext
\end{quote}
\blindtext
\end{document}

Perhaps show with code, similarly as I, what you mean with inconsistent spacing. There could be other reasons.

Stefan

[NeuroTex]

...thanks for a very helpful post here

but - is there a way for (and any sense in) putting the starred version of the \singlespace command? Say something like:

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\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro\quote\singlespace*
\makeatother

the above doesn't seem to be working form me
and using:

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\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro{\quote}{\singlespace*}
\makeatother

just adds an extra "*" in front of my quoted text.

...and what would be the valid/proper way to add \singlespace to every occurrence of a starred command like table* or chapter*?