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Support LaTeX's `\blockcquote` about org-special-block-extras HOT 2 OPEN

Perangelot commented on June 8, 2024

Support LaTeX's `\blockcquote`

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opensource-philosophy commented on June 8, 2024 1

In LaTeX, the blockcquote block simply expands to the LaTeX-command \blockcquote. In beamer, it results in a quote environment in which the text is placed, below of which the full author name, the title of the work and the year it was published are displayed. For the beamer implementation, the command \citeauthorfull has to be defined like this:

\DeclareCiteCommand{\citeauthorfull}
  {\boolfalse{citetracker}%
   \boolfalse{pagetracker}%
   \DeclareNameAlias{labelname}{first-last}%
   \usebibmacro{prenote}}
  {\ifciteindex
     {\indexnames{labelname}}
     {}%
   \printtext[bibhyperref]{\printnames{labelname}}}
  {\multicitedelim}
  {\usebibmacro{postnote}}

Although not a mandatory argument, citekey is needed for it to work properly.

Here is the code:

(org-defblock blockcquote nil (citekey "" pages "" above "1em" below "0.5em")
              "For LaTeX, use the `blockcquote' command, for beamer, use the `quote' environment with the quote description centered below."
              (cond
               ((equal backend 'latex)
                (format "\\blockcquote[%s]{%s}{%s}"
                        pages citekey contents))
               ((equal backend 'beamer)
                ()
                (format "\\vskip %s
  \\begin{quote}
  %s
  \\end{quote} \\pause \\vskip %s
  \\begin{center}
  \\vskip -1em
  \\parbox[c]{0.8\\linewidth}{\\centering \\textemdash~\\citeauthorfull{%s}, \\citefield{%s}{title}, \\citeyear{%s}}
  \\end{center}"
                        above raw-contents below citekey citekey citekey))))

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