[Tex/LaTex] csquotes: Footnotes after Block Quotes with Quotation Marks

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Pretty often, I come across a situation where I'd like to add a footnote to a block quote in order to comment on the passage quoted.

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern,csquotes,lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum*[1]
\blockquote{\lipsum*[1]...}\footnote{bla...}
\lipsum*[1]
\blockquote{\lipsum*[1]...\footnote{bla...}}
\lipsum*[1]
\end{document}

As expected, the first arrangement is not going to work. The footnote mark will end up at the beginning of the paragraph following the quote (as \footnote is invoked after the \blockquote is closed). This can be fixed by including \footnote within \blockquote.

But this fix will stop working as soon as we apply certain changes to the appearance of our block quotes. Consider my modifications, which I find more pleasing than the LaTeX defaults. (I've disabled those parts of my modifications that aren't relevant to the problem.)

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern,csquotes,lipsum}

\renewcommand{\mkblockquote}[4]{\enquote{#1}#2\ifterm{\relax}{#3}#4}

%
%\renewenvironment{quote}
%{\list{}{\itemindent=0em
%         \listparindent=\parindent
%         \leftmargin=\parindent
%         \rightmargin=0em
%         \partopsep=0em
%         \topsep=0em
%         }%
% \item\relax}
%{\endlist}

\begin{document}
\lipsum*[1]
\blockquote{\lipsum*[1]...}\footnote{bla...}
\lipsum*[1]
\end{document}

This style (among other things) retains the quotation marks even for the block quotes. That's what the \mkblockquote line is about. The problem is: how can we can have the footnote mark come after the closing mark, but remain on the same line? I've experiment with things like \nobreak, but, being a layman when it comes to low-level things, to no avail. I've also tried working on the modified \mkblockquote: one might make the footnote an optional argument to \blockquote. But everything I tried still resulted in the footnote mark being pushed into the next paragraph.

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Update

karlkoeller suggested using a re-defined \mkcitation for that purpose. This does indeed produce a footnote mark in the proper place, and provides a very elegant interface: \blockquote[footnote text]{quote text}. But it breaks as soon as there is a citation command somewhere in the footnote text — which will happen quite often …or, in my case, literally every time. For a simple block quote with no additional remarks in the footnote, I use \blockc(!)quote[123]{xyz}{quote text}, which generates the block quote, the footnote mark, and the citation in the footnote. What I'm after is a way to not only have a citation in the footnote, but additional text, which in turn may include more citations (see the picture, which I updated as well).

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage{lmodern,csquotes,lipsum}

\renewcommand{\mkblockquote}[4]{\enquote{#1}#2\ifterm{\relax}{#3}#4}
\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{\footnote{#1}}

\begin{document}
\lipsum*[1]
\blockquote[Says \cite[123]{xyz}. See also \cite[123]{xyz}.]{\lipsum*[1]...}
\lipsum*[1]
\end{document}

NB: using the postnote of \blockcquote, as in
\blockcquote[123... footnote text, more citations]{xyz}{quote text}
is not an option. It'll break as well, complaining about nested citation commands.

Best Answer

Note that the csquotes package allows to define an optional argument for citations in \blockquote and this one can be defined to be a footnote.

So, you just have to add

\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{\footnote{#1}}

in the preamble

and use

\blockquote[bla...]{\lipsum*[1]...}

instead of

\blockquote{\lipsum*[1]...}\footnote{bla...}

Complete MWE

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern,csquotes,lipsum}

\renewcommand{\mkblockquote}[4]{\enquote{#1}#2\ifterm{\relax}{#3}#4}
\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{\footnote{#1}}

\begin{document}
\lipsum*[1]
\blockquote[bla...]{\lipsum*[1]...}
\lipsum*[1]
\end{document}

Output

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Update

Your issue in the update can be resolved in this way:

replace

\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{\footnote{#1}}

with simply

\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{#1}

and then use

\blockquote[\footnotemark]{\lipsum*[1]...}
\footnotetext{Says \cite[59]{companion}. See also \cite[59]{companion}.}

instead of

\blockquote[Says \cite[123]{xyz}. See also \cite[123]{xyz}.]{\lipsum*[1]...}

In this way, we've separated the \footnotemark from the \footnotetext and the problem doesn't arise.

Complete working MWE

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex}
\usepackage{lmodern,csquotes,lipsum}

\renewcommand{\mkblockquote}[4]{\enquote{#1}#2\ifterm{\relax}{#3}#4}
\renewcommand{\mkcitation}[1]{#1}

\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\begin{document}
\lipsum*[1]
\blockquote[\footnotemark]{\lipsum*[1]...}
\footnotetext{Says \cite[59]{companion}. See also \cite[59]{companion}.}
\lipsum*[1]
\end{document}

Output

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Environment Syntax

 \begin{shadequote}[<alignment>]{<author>}
    text of quote
 \end{shadequote}

Code

% !TEX TS-program = xeLaTeX

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}

\usepackage{tikz}

\usepackage{framed}

% conditional for xetex or luatex
\newif\ifxetexorluatex
\ifxetex
  \xetexorluatextrue
\else
  \ifluatex
    \xetexorluatextrue
  \else
    \xetexorluatexfalse
  \fi
\fi
%
\ifxetexorluatex%
  \usepackage{fontspec}
  \usepackage{libertine} % or use \setmainfont to choose any font on your system
  \newfontfamily\quotefont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine O} % selects Libertine as the quote font
\else
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage{libertine} % or any other font package
  \newcommand*\quotefont{\fontfamily{LinuxLibertineT-LF}} % selects Libertine as the quote font
\fi

\newcommand*\quotesize{60} % if quote size changes, need a way to make shifts relative
% Make commands for the quotes
\newcommand*{\openquote}
   {\tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=-4ex,yshift=-2.5ex]
   \node (OQ) {\quotefont\fontsize{\quotesize}{\quotesize}\selectfont``};\kern0pt}

\newcommand*{\closequote}[1]
  {\tikz[remember picture,overlay,xshift=4ex,yshift={#1}]
   \node (CQ) {\quotefont\fontsize{\quotesize}{\quotesize}\selectfont''};}

% select a colour for the shading
\colorlet{shadecolor}{Azure}

\newcommand*\shadedauthorformat{\emph} % define format for the author argument

% Now a command to allow left, right and centre alignment of the author
\newcommand*\authoralign[1]{%
  \if#1l
    \def\authorfill{}\def\quotefill{\hfill}
  \else
    \if#1r
      \def\authorfill{\hfill}\def\quotefill{}
    \else
      \if#1c
        \gdef\authorfill{\hfill}\def\quotefill{\hfill}
      \else\typeout{Invalid option}
      \fi
    \fi
  \fi}
% wrap everything in its own environment which takes one argument (author) and one optional argument
% specifying the alignment [l, r or c]
%
\newenvironment{shadequote}[2][l]%
{\authoralign{#1}
\ifblank{#2}
   {\def\shadequoteauthor{}\def\yshift{-2ex}\def\quotefill{\hfill}}
   {\def\shadequoteauthor{\par\authorfill\shadedauthorformat{#2}}\def\yshift{2ex}}
\begin{snugshade}\begin{quote}\openquote}
{\shadequoteauthor\quotefill\closequote{\yshift}\end{quote}\end{snugshade}}

\begin{document}

\begin{shadequote}[l]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
\end{shadequote}

\begin{shadequote}[r]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
\end{shadequote}

\begin{shadequote}[c]{Douglas Adams}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
\end{shadequote}

\begin{shadequote}{}
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
\end{shadequote}

\end{document}

In this code, the font for the quotation marks is set independently of the main document font. This is because depending on the main font you choose, the very large quotation marks will not look good; Linux Libertine has pretty quotes that seem appropriate for the purpose. If you want to use this environment with another main document font, remove/change the \usepackage{libertine}.

Sample output

output of code

[Tex/LaTex] Three quotation levels for csquotes

Define a new quote style and add appropriate level tests for the outer quotation marks:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[maxlevel=3]{csquotes}

\makeatletter
\DeclareQuoteStyle{threelevel}
    {\ifnum\csq@qlevel<2 \guillemotleft\else\textquotedblleft\fi}% opening outer mark
    {\ifnum\csq@qlevel<2 \guillemotright\else\textquotedblright\fi}% closing outer mark
    {\textquoteleft}% opening inner mark
    {\textquoteright}% closing inner mark
\makeatother

\ExecuteQuoteOptions{style=threelevel}

\begin{document}

\enquote{Jeg (temmelig hånlig): \enquote{I setter uvanlig pris på Dürer --
først kommer \enquote{Som jeg vil fryse etter solen} og nå sanduret fra Melancolia.}}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Three quotation levels for csquotes

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