boxesframedquoting
Now I run into a problem with frameboxes. Why is the following
not valid LaTeX code?
\framebox{
The following text was taken from:
\begin{quote}
Erik Pickles: How it will end
\end{quote}
}
I get the following error:
something's wrong — maybe an missing item?
If you need an empty framed box, you can define your own command:
\newcommand{\emptybox}[2][\textwidth]{%
\begingroup
\setlength{\fboxsep}{-\fboxrule}%
\noindent\framebox[#1]{\rule{0pt}{#2}}%
\endgroup
}
so a call of
\emptybox{4cm}
will produce a 4cm high empty box and as wide as the text. With
\emptybox[8cm]{4cm}
you get it 4cm high and 8cm wide. The \setlength instruction ensures no padding is added (otherwise \emptybox{4cm} would produce an overfull line).
Here's a solution you maybe have to adjust according to your fonts (the \hspace).
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[style=british]{csquotes}
\def\signed #1{{\leavevmode\unskip\nobreak\hfil\penalty50\hskip1em
\hbox{}\nobreak\hfill #1%
\parfillskip=0pt \finalhyphendemerits=0 \endgraf}}
\newsavebox\mybox
\newenvironment{aquote}[1]
{\savebox\mybox{#1}\begin{quote}\openautoquote\hspace*{-.7ex}}
{\unskip\closeautoquote\vspace*{1mm}\signed{\usebox\mybox}\end{quote}}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
Example:
\begin{aquote}{Author Name}
This is an example with some text that goes across more than one line.
\end{aquote}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Framebox doesn't like have an environment inside it. You could consider using the
framedpackage.