Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ New environment using the old one

[Yeats]

Hi,

I need to create a new environment completely the same as the old one. Here is what I mean: I need two different quote environments one which I would use with \begin{quote} and another that would be the same but I would use \begin{source} command instead.

Does anyone know how to include the old environment in the \newenvironment command?

Thanks!

[cgnieder]

Hi Yeats,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

What the command \begin{env} does apart from opening a group and setting the current environment name is issuing the command \env. The \end{env} checks if the currently open environment matches, calls \endenv and closes the group (roughly speaking). So the standard way to create a wrapper environment is to call the commands \env and \endenv in the \newenvironment statement:

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\documentclass{article}

\newenvironment{source}{\quote}{\endquote}

\usepackage{kantlipsum}% dummy text

\begin{document}

\kant[1]

\begin{source}
 \kant[2-3]
\end{source}

\kant[4]

\end{document}

Regards

[Yeats]

Thank you very much for the fast answer! This solved my problem and its so simple! Sometimes the simplest things are so hard to find (and I did a thorough search before posting here). Thanks again!