Am 16.09.2025 um 07:31 schrieb Matthias Weber:
Dear All,
I am trying to set up block quotes within a frame as below.
How can I make the frame fit the block quote?
The parameter location=… doesn’t seem to have any effect, regardless of what I
put there.
Thanks!
Matthias
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupcolor[rgb]
\definecolor[quotecolor][r=.95,g=.99,b=.99]
\definecolor[quotetxt][r=.2,g=.2,b=.1]
\defineframedtext [quotebackground]
[backgroundcolor=quotecolor,
location=paragraph,
background=color,
corner=round,
width=broad,
frame=on,
framecolor=black,
color=quotetxt]
\setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style=\slx,
leftmargin=.5\textwidth,
rightmargin=no,
before={\startquotebackground},
after={\stopquotebackground\blank[2cm]}]
\starttext
\startsubject[title={Introduction}]
\startblockquote
\quotation{Need must find,} said the sea-thing child.
\\
\quotation{Find what?} said the crab.
\\
\quotation{Whatever there is,} said the sea-thing child.
\\
\SmallCapped{Russel Hoban}, {\em The Sea-Thing Child}
\par
\stopblockquote
\input{tufte}
\stopsubject
\stoptext
Like this?
%%%% begin example
\definecolor [quotecolor] [r=.95,g=.99,b=.99]
\definecolor [quotetxt] [r=.2,g=.2,b=.1]
\defineframedtext
[EpigraphFrame]
[width=fit,
corner=round,
location=right,
background=color,
backgroundcolor=quotecolor,
foregroundcolor=quotetxt,
after={\blank[2*line]}]
\definelines
[Epigraph]
[before=\startEpigraphFrame,
after=\stopEpigraphFrame]
\starttext
\startsubject[title={Introduction}]
\startEpigraph
\quotation{Need must find,} said the sea-thing child.
\quotation{Find what?} said the crab.
\quotation{Whatever there is,} said the sea-thing child.
\SmallCapped{Russel Hoban}, {\em The Sea-Thing Child}
\stopEpigraph
\input{tufte}
\stopsubject
\stoptext
%%%% end example
Wolfgang
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