2007/11/2, Wolfgang Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>
> 2007/11/1, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > Dear gang,
> >
> > This has bugged me for years but I never said anything since the
> > workaround is so easy. OTOH I am working on something I'd like to share
> > with others and an official solution would be better:
> >
> > \starttext
> > \input knuth
> > \startquotation
> > \input knuth
> > \stopquotation
> > \input knuth
> > \stoptext
> >
> > I. \start-\stopquotation surrounds the block quote in double-quotes
> > marks.
> > I don't know about other European languages but in English this is
> > redundant; I've hardly ever seen block quotes use dbl-quote marks.
> >
> > We at least need a setup option to turn this off.
> >
> > II. There should be some default whitespace between the block quote and
> > the surrounding text, just as \start-stopitemize has. Or at least this
> > should be configurable in the setups.
> >
> > If these two are already there (not in the manual) then please let us
> > know
> > how to set this up. Otherwise could you add configuration options for
> > this?
> >
> > FYI: Here is what I use
> >
> > ===========
> > \definestartstop
> > [quote]
> > [before={\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\blank[big]\noindenting},
> > after={\stopnarrower\blank[big]}]
> > ===========
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Idris
>
>
> Hi Idris,
>
> there is no perfect solution in ConTeXt because the \quotation and the
> \start/stopquotation commands are defined with the same definition and it
> is
> not possible to disable the quote marks for the one and enable it for the
> other,
> but you can use ConTeXt's mechanism for nested quotations and redefine the
> other one.
>
> \setupdelimitedtext
> [quotation]
> [1]
> [left={\symbol[leftquotation]},
> right={\symbol[rightquotation]}]
>
> \setupdelimitedtext
> [quotation]
> [2]
> [left={\symbol[leftquote]},
> right={\symbol[rightquote]}]
>
> \setupdelimitedtext
> [quote]
> [location=margin, % paragraph
> left=,
> right=,
> before={\blank[big]},
> after={\blank[big]}]
>
This can also be written as
\setupdelimitedtext
[quote]
[location=margin, % paragraph
left=,
right=,
spacebefore=big,
%spaceafter=big, % spaceafter is spacebefore by default
]
\starttext
>
> \input knuth
>
> \quotation{I'm a quoteted text \quotation{within another quoteted text}
> and back.}
>
> \startquote
> \input knuth
> \stopquote
>
> \input knuth
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
>
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