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I am writing a text with LyX in the KOMA Script document class and have set the following margins under Document->Settings->Page Margins

top: 2.5cm
bottom: 2.5cm
inner: 2.5cm
outer: 3cm

As I am bound to MLA (Modern Language Association) formatting rules, I am using biblatex-mla package and have already altered the quote environment to be in a smaller fontsize and singlespaced. You can see that in my preamble:

\usepackage[american]{babel} 
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=mla,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{<mybib.bib>}
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro\quote\singlespace
\makeatother
\let\quoteOLD\quote
\def\quote{\quoteOLD\small}

However, the long quotes that I have set to be in LyX's "quote" paragraph environment are indented on the right side, i.e. the right maring is not 2.5cm, but more. How can I change that behavior of the "quote" paragraph environment in LyX and have long quotes that are set to the "quote" environment to be set in the same right margins as the rest of the text?

Jesse
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Stefanotis
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1 Answers1

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Write into the preamble of your document (Document->Settings->Preamble) a redefinition of the quote environment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\renewenvironment{quote}
  {\small\list{}{\rightmargin=2.5cm \leftmargin=2.5cm}%
   \item\relax}
  {\endlist}

\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{quote}
\blindtext
\end{quote}

\end{document}

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