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\attrib \normalcitations Part I Discussion 1 Attributions FIX: maybe \attrib when not in a block environment should do this, with appropriate hooks added, etc.: use the blkcntrl hooks. and Pre stuff. \def\attrib [1] {% (\begingroup \attribcitations #1% \endgroup )% } Here’s an example of the kind that inspires the question: ({\attribcitations% \citework{3}{unnam},andseepage~\pageref{q:aporia}}). Thisway\attribcitations and \normalcitations could still be defined only within \attrib, which seems the most sensible. Iwrote\attrib in order to have an abstract way to attribute the source of quotations of prose or verse in an academic style. The formatting is that recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style, except that attributions of block quotations of prose are given flush right, to allow the reader to locate a quotation more quickly when returning to the text. Use \attrib {〈attribution〉} at the end of any block of text, such as the quote, quotation, verse, anddialogue environments (the last is defined in the dialogue package, also part of the Frankenstein bundle). For verse, you ought to use either a blank line or a final \\ before your attribution. For quote, quotation, anddialgoue, don’t leave a blank line. \attrib will place the attribution flush right to the margins of the block. If there is enough room on the last line, the attribution will be given on the last line, otherwise it moves down to a line of its own. You can put pretty much anything as the text of the attribution, including citations and footnotes. For those using the achicago and abbrevs packages (also in the Frankenstein bundle), \citework works very well. If you’re using regular \cite or another package, I recommend using the FIX hook below to remove the usual parens or braces around citations that occur within the \attrib argument. It makes more sensetomethatway. If parens are normally around citations, they are removed when citations occur within attributions. The idea is that you can simply write \attrib{\cite{key}} and what normally surrounds the citation will be replaced with \PreTrib and \PostTrib (which of course could be the same thing, but doing it this way allows attributions to contain things other than just a citation and still everything will look right). Whenever within an attribution you want the normal behavior of citations back, write \normalcitations. \normalcitations is automatically used within footnotes within attributions; it’s used in the epigraph package; and occasionally a user will want to invoke it, when the attribution is unusual. I find that most 2
\attribcitations attributions are either just a citation, or they do not have a citation at all. Sometimes I’ve wanted an attribution consisting of a citation plus some other text, for which cases I provided \normalcitations as a user command. To do: Right now the only time there is any concept of “normal” or altered behavior of \cite commands is with the achicago package. I should make it so that \attrib by default leaves off braces, brackets, etc, around citations, for the standard definition of \cite also. FIX: dox, example. 2 Examples Following are several examples that use \attrib. They should be self-explanatory. \begin{quotation} [My plays] deal with distress. Some people object to this in my writing. At a party an English intellectual---so called---asked me why I write always about distress. As if it were perverse to do so! He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood. I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood. Then he thought me more perverse than ever. I left the party as soon as possible and got into a taxi. On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees. One does not have to look for distress. It is screaming at you even in the taxis of London. \attrib{\cite[24]{driver:beckett:madeleine}} \end{quotation} LOOKS LIKE: [My plays] deal with distress. Some people object to this in my writing. At a party an English intellectual—so called—asked me why I write always about distress. As if it were perverse to do so! He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood. I told him no, that I had had a very happy childhood. Then he thought me more perverse than ever. I left the party as soon as possible and got into a taxi. On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees. One does not have to look for distress. It is screaming at you even in the taxis of London. (Driver 1961, 24) \providelength\mtslen \newcommand\makethisspace [1] {% \settowidth{\mtslen}{#1}% \hspace*{\mtslen}% } \begin{verse} 3
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