Re: Styling quotes and quotations

2006-03-18 Thread Peter Bowyer
At 23:02 17/03/2006, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Typographers tell us that block quotations should not be placed in quotation marks. Nor should they be put in a different typeface. Generally a block quotation is indented and the font size may be the same or smaller than the body text. See, for exampl

Re: Styling quotes and quotations

2006-03-18 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Peter Bowyer wrote: > I'd like to know if it's possible to style the Quote and Quotation > styles further?  In other words, to get a different font and > automated quotation marks around the blocks?  Currently my Quotes > look like indented blocks of my text. You can do that (just redefine the quo

Re: Styling quotes and quotations

2006-03-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Peter, Typographers tell us that block quotations should not be placed in quotation marks. Nor should they be put in a different typeface. Generally a block quotation is indented and the font size may be the same or smaller than the body text. See, for example, Robert Bringhurst's The Element

Styling quotes and quotations

2006-03-17 Thread Peter Bowyer
Hi, I'm new to LyX, and am using 1.37 on Windows. I'd like to know if it's possible to style the Quote and Quotation styles further? In other words, to get a different font and automated quotation marks around the blocks? Currently my Quotes look like indented blocks of my text. Also, wha