Re: broken ..epigraph in XeTeX?

On 2/5/2017 3:40 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> Formatting block quotes will "spill over" to epigraphs by default.
> *This is intended*, as an epigraph is a special quote.

As you say: *by default*.
But my question is:
how can the *user* readily decouple them?

In HTML+CSS this is trivial.
My question is:
how can this be made trivial with LaTeX output?

The problem is the different model in LaTeX:
environments cannot truly be arbitrarily classed.

I assume we agree that epigraphs are often
indented differently in a document than
regular block quotes.  For example, in a book
I am now reading, the epigraphs have no indentation.

Your proposal (if I understand it) is that LaTeX
users somehow try to style the environment content
rather than the environment.  Your example was::

   \newcommand{\DUclassepigraph}{\em}

I do not see how a user can discard the surrounding
quote environment with this approach (e.g., to
achieve the formatting in the book mentioned above).
Again, if this were done with environments, the use
could just use ``\renewenvironment``.  Would such
an approach create implementation difficulties?

Thanks,
Alan

PS Since I seem to quickly wear out my welcome on this
list (for reasons I do not quite understand), I will not
say anything more about this.

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