\
epigraph
command, for
creating a single
epigraph (as at the top of a chapter):
\chapter{The Social Life of Rabbits} \epigraph{Oh! My ears and whiskers!}% {Lewis Carroll}
and an epigraphs environment, for entering more than one epigraph
consecutively, in a sort of list introduced by \
qitem
commands:
\begin{epigraphs} \qitem{What I tell you three times is true}% {Lewis Carroll} \qitem{Oh listen do, I'm telling you!}% {A.A. Milne} \end{epigraphs}
The \
epigraphhead
command enables you to place your epigraph
above a chapter header:
\setlength{\unitlength}{1pt} ... \chapter{The Social Life of Rabbits} \epigraphhead[<distance>]{% \epigraph{Oh! My ears and whiskers!}% {Lewis Carroll}% }
The <distance> says how far above the chapter heading the
epigraph is to go; it’s expressed in terms of the \
unitlength
that’s used in the picture
environment; the package’s
author recommends 70pt
.
\
epigraphhead
), for patching the bibliography, for patching
\
part
pages, and so on. (Some of these suggested patches lead you
through writing your own package...)
The quotchap package redefines chapter headings (in a
moderately striking way), and provides an environment
savequotes
in which you can provide one (or more)
quotations to use as epigraphs. The facilities seem not as flexible
as those of epigraph, but it’s probably easier to use.
The memoir class offers all the facilities of the
epigraph package. The Koma-script classes have
commands \
setchapterpreamble
and \
dictum
to provide these
facilities.
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