Re: [PATCH] ox-latex.el: add LaTeX attributes to quote block

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Here is the updated patch, with the corresponding additions in the
> manual and ORG-NEWS.

Thanks.

I cannot apply it on top of master however. On what commit did you base
it?

There are also some nits, but I can fix them when applying your patch.
> +#+cindex: quote blocks, in @LaTeX{} export
> +#+cindex: @samp{ATTR_LATEX}, keyword

This is not related to your patch (it can be encountered elsewhere), but
the index entry above is too generic to be useful. Maybe 

  #+cindex: @samp{ATTR_LATEX}, in quote blocks

would be better.

> +#+cindex: org-latex-default-quote-environment

This should be #+vindex: ...

> +The LaTeX export back-end accepts two attributes for quote blocks:
> +=:environment=, for an arbitrary quoting environment (the default
> +value is that of =org-latex-default-quote-environment=: ="quote"=) and

~org-latex-default-quote-environment~ and ~"quote"~ since they both
refer to Lisp code, not Org syntax.

> +=:options=. For example, to choose the environment =quotation=,
> +included as an alternative to =quote= in standard LaTeX classes:
> +
> +#+begin_example
> +,#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment quotation
> +,#+BEGIN_QUOTE
> +some text...
> +,#+END_QUOTE
> +#+end_example

Note that you can currently write, perhaps more elegantly,

  #+begin_quotation
  some text...
  #+end_quotation

> +To choose the =foreigndisplayquote= environment, included in the LaTeX
> +package =csquotes=, with the =german= option, use this syntax:
> +
> +#+begin_example
> +,#+LATEX_HEADER:\usepackage[autostyle=true]{csquotes}
> +,#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment foreigndisplayquote :options {german}
> +,#+BEGIN_QUOTE
> +some text in German...
> +,#+END_QUOTE
> +#+end_example

I don't know if this example is a good illustration because you can
currently achieve the same with:

  #+attr_latex: :options {german}
  #+begin_foreigndisplayquote
  some text in German...
  #+end_foreigndisplayquote

Are there use cases that would be better than using special blocks as in
the example above?

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou