opening quotes for each chapter

[David Wittman]

Dear T-L experts,

I was looking at Tufte's books, and one feature I really like is that
each chapter has an opening quote on the mostly-empty left-hand page.
Is there a command to do that?

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David Wittman
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of California, Davis

[Kevin Godby]

Hello, David.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:44 PM, David Wittman
<dwit...@physics.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> I was looking at Tufte's books, and one feature I really like is that
> each chapter has an opening quote on the mostly-empty left-hand page.
> Is there a command to do that?

Unfortunately, we don't currently have a built-in command to do that.

--Kevin

[Dan T. Abell]

Have a look at Peter Wilson's package epigraph. He
describes how to do exactly what (I think) you want.
See his description of epigraphs on Part pages, which
you can modify for your chapters.

Cheers,
-Dan

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[David Wittman]

Thanks for the quick replies! In the end, I decided that what I am doing
is so simple---a lone image or quote centered on the page---that
I just put it before \begin{chapter} and I'm done.

By the way, I noticed that Tufte must put incredible care into the
layout and pagination of his books. He usually starts a chapter
on the right-hand page and has an arresting image or quote on
the left. But sometimes he wants to start a chapter with a two-page
spread. In either case, the previous chapter *always* ends on a
right-hand page so that there is never a blank page at the
end of a chapter.

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[dam...@gmail.com]

You can use the quotchap package exactly for this.
www.ctan.org/pkg/quotchap

regards

Amit