Command/setupdelimitedtext

\setupdelimitedtext

Syntax

\setupdelimitedtext[name][n][...,...=...,...]
[name]	name of the delimitedtext to set up
[n]	(optional) nesting level to set up (1 = outermost)
location	margin text paragraph: function unknown
spacebefore	dimension: space above delimitedtext fragment
spaceafter	dimension, spacebefore by default: space below delimitedtext fragment
style	normal bold italic, etc
color	color
leftmargin	dimension: distance to edge of the page's left margin area
rightmargin	dimension, leftmargin by default
indentnext	yes no
before	command
after	command
left	text
middle	text
right	text
level=0,	unknown, 0 by default
repeat	no yes
method	unknown

Description

Set up the appearance of a delimitedtext environment defined earlier with \definedelimitedtext. \quotation and \quote are delimitedtexts, too, so you can also set up those with this command; but for those you can also use the special commands \setupquotation and \setupquote.

Most of the parameters are self-explanatory, but two things should be borne in mind:

• Nearly all of the parameters apply only if the new kind of text is invoked with \startmydelimitedtext: if one uses \mydelimitedtext{...}, only left and right have any effect.

• leftmargin contains the distance to the actual left margin, not to the edge of the body text. If the new delimitedtext inherits from quotation, the text will be indented a bit with respect to the body text; if you want to line them up, set the leftmargin to \leftmargindistance rather than to 0pt.

Example

\definedelimitedtext[mydt]
\setupdelimitedtext[mydt][left=\leftguillemot,right=\rightguillemot]

\quotation{Clancy of the Overflow}, by Banjo Paterson

\startmydt
  And an answer came directed in a manner unexpected, and I
  think the same was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar;
  't was his shearing-mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
  \quotation{Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.}
\stopmydt

Multiparagraph quotations

In English typography there is a custom of opening each paragraph in a multiparagraph quotation with a "repeated" opening quotation sign. This behavior may be turned on using the repeat switch and middle key, for example:

\setupquotation[repeat=yes, middle=“]                % or equivalently
\setupdelimitedtext[quotation][repeat=yes, middle=“]

See also

• \definedelimitedtext
• \setupquotation
• \setupquote

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