%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed %% %% Example 4-1-7 on page I-261 in "\LaTeX {}'s generic list environments". %% %% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{tlc3exa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{123.0pt} \sloppy %as the column in the book is so small %StartShownPreambleCommands \newenvironment{Quote}% {\begin{list}{}{\setlength\rightmargin{\leftmargin}}% \item[]\makebox[0pt][r]{``}\ignorespaces}% {\unskip\makebox[0pt][l]{''}\end{list}} %StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} A paragraph of text before our display quotation. \begin{Quote} Some quoted text, followed by more quoted text. \end{Quote} Directly following text \ldots \end{document}