[Tex/LaTex] How to change the indentation in quote and quotation environments and commands

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I need to change the indentation that the quote and quotation environments and commands employ. I assume that there is some length I need to set, but I've googled around, and cannot find what I am after. So, how to alter the indentation?

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What about something like that ?

\newenvironment{myquote}%
  {\list{}{\leftmargin=0.3in\rightmargin=0.3in}\item[]}%
  {\endlist}

You can also make the margin size an option:

\newenvironment{myquote}[1]%
  {\list{}{\leftmargin=#1\rightmargin=#1}\item[]}%
  {\endlist}

And use with:

\begin{myquote}{0.3in}
  % ...
\end{myquote}

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[Tex/LaTex] Adding an open-quote mark to the start of each line in a multiline quotation

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lineno,kantlipsum}

\newcommand{\leftquotes}{\def\makeLineNumber{%
  \ifnum\value{linenumber}=1 \else\hskip\leftmargin\llap{``}\hss\fi}}

\newenvironment{quotedquotation}
  {\quotation\linenumbers\leftquotes}
  {\endquotation}

\begin{document}
\begin{quotedquotation}
``\kant*[1]\unskip''
\end{quotedquotation}
\end{document}

(The \unskip is there only for technical reasons.)

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lineno puts a zero width \hbox at the left margin and uses \makeLineNumber to decide what to typeset in it. In a quotation environment the left margin is the same, but lines are shifted right by \leftmargin, so we have to cover this space. Then we typeset another zero width box with contents on its left (\llap{x} does the same as \makebox[0pt][r]{x} but it's more efficient) and then we issue the \hss command for telling TeX that this whole business will not occupy any space (so it can stay in a zero width box without overfilling it).

"Solution" for paragraph mode

I'm afraid that reproducing that kind of book requires a lot of manual intervention. Here is a partial solution:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lineno,kantlipsum}

\newenvironment{quotedlines}[1]{\leavevmode\rlap{`}\kern.5em#1{\parfillskip=0pt\par}%
  \begingroup\leftskip=.5em
  \def\makeLineNumber{\rlap{`}}\linenumbers\noindent\ignorespaces}
  {\par\endgroup}

\begin{document}
\kant*[1]
\begin{quotedlines}{Here starts}
\kant*[2]
\end{quotedlines}
\kant[3]
\end{document}

In the argument of quotedlines you put the end of the line (what goes after the quote mark at the beginning).

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[Tex/LaTex] Change the font of the block quote

As I've commented on one of your other questions, you shouldn't use \fontspec to change fonts, but define a new fontfamily. The etoolbox package provides simple patching commands. For this you can just use its \AtBeginEnvironment command.

% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\newfontfamily\quotefont{Linux Biolinum O}
\AtBeginEnvironment{quote}{\quotefont\small}
\begin{document}
Some text.
\begin{quote}
A quotation.
\end{quote}

\end{document}

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Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Adding an open-quote mark to the start of each line in a multiline quotation

"Solution" for paragraph mode

[Tex/LaTex] Change the font of the block quote

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