Hi Eran,

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On Tuesday 10 January 2006 21:56, you wrote:
> The simple answer is that I am bound by institutional constraints.
> Nonetheless, most of the books I see set quotes in smaller point size
> of the same typeface.

Maybe my own logic wasn't as logical as I thought. I justed looked at 
the Chicago Manual of Style; they say block quotations may be "indented 
or set in a smaller type or a different font... and may have less space 
between the lines." 

So, "put that in your pipe and smoke it, Kevin."  :-)

> On a more general level, allow me a newcomer's observation that
> Latex/Lyx conventions are not necessarily ideal. For example, Lyx
> boasts the advantage of using text figures, whereas word processing
> software provides only lining figures; but if you select old style
> figures as a default, Lyx automatically uses them for headers and
> headings, which most typographers consider a no no.

This may vary, depending on the document class you are using (most of 
which were originally written for LaTeX and not LyX, I think), but your 
point is taken. One can, of course change this default behavior.

> Anyway, I can't imagine that asking to set quotes in the same point
> size as footnotes offends any fundamental principle of Lyx. 

No, of course not.

-Kevin

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Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations

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