On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, G. Milde wrote:
Did you ever try both of them? Actually, "quote" formats with space delimited paragraphs, "quotation" uses indented paragraphs.
How interesting! I have not noticed that although I use both in my book and in reports. I guess that I never looked closely enough at the two of them side-by-side to see that.
The description of the two environments in either the Tutorial or the User's Guide (I think the latter) emphasizes the distinction in paragraph-separation style as the difference between the two. I don't recall it even suggesting that "quote" was for short quotations and "quotation" for longer ones.
Personally, I'd like a quoting environment where all paragraphs except the first were indented, and without spacing between paragraphs; that'd better match most of my quotations that cross a paragraph boundary, since they often don't start at the beginning of a paragraph. But that's minor - I imagine I can probably suppress the indentation of the first paragraph with a little ERT.
-- Michael Wojcik
