General ⇒ Introductory quotes in latex

[dmt]

I'm writing a report and would like to have a famous quote at the beginning (somewhere under the title). Is there a latex environment already for doing something like this? Are there standard style recommendations for how you format something like this?

I know about the quote environment, but then I still have to align the author name under the quote appropriately, and possible change the quote to italics (which I think is more standard for this type of thing), but I was wondering if there was a latex environment that took care of this, especially aligning the author's name under the quote.

Thanks.

[localghost]

I guess you mean an epigraph (or dictum). Depending on the used document class there are some possible solutions.

• The epigraph package provides a solution for the standard classes.
• The KOMA Script bundle provides the \dictum[author]{text} command for its classes.
• The memoir class provides a command and an environment for epigraphs.

Refer to the related documentations to find out how to get the desired result.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[dmt]

Thanks, that was great. I had never heard "epigraph" before, nice to know what it's called as well.