Keep block quotes text on single lines

Question

I am using CSQUOTES package as suggested by this TEX question. It plays nicely with the nested {}s

How do I get the following (bibtex) text that has each line as a single line to remain on a single line, while in a blockquote (indented) format? It should look like this, but in a blockquote:

@inproceedings{Velloso:2013:MMM:2470654.2466171,
 author = {Velloso, Eduardo and Bulling, Andreas and Gellersen, Hans},
 title = {MotionMA: Motion Modelling and Analysis by Demonstration},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
 series = {CHI '13},
 year = {2013},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-1899-0},
 doi = {10.1145/2470654.2466171},
 acmid = {2466171},
 publisher = {ACM},
 ...
}

Sorry but I don't understand your question. The problem is inside your .bib source file or when you insert the references with \printbibliography? — Aradnix, Dec 17 '13 at 07:48
@Aradnix , no. I a merely trying to have the above text each on its own line, in a block text format — chris Frisina, Dec 17 '13 at 16:26
Currently, it is in blockquotes, but not on an independent line — chris Frisina, Dec 17 '13 at 16:38
Why use a quote, and not some verbatim environment or other (verbatim or lstlisting from listings)? — Torbjørn T., Dec 17 '13 at 19:47

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '13 at 06:42

You can use the lstlisting environment from the listings package to do this. It is a verbatim environment, meaning that everything in it is printed exactly as written, including whitespace, braces, backslashes etc. You can configure it to allow for wrapping of long lines (breaklines=true), and set an indentation with xleftmargin=<length>.

This way you don't have add all the line breaks manually, and escape all the braces. On the other hand, words will not be hyphenated automatically, as they are in your quote.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes} % for comparison

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{breaklines=true,
        breakatwhitespace=false,
        columns=flexible,
        xleftmargin=2em}
\begin{document}

\noindent With \texttt{lstlistings}:
\begin{lstlisting}
@inproceedings{Velloso:2013:MMM:2470654.2466171,
 author = {Velloso, Eduardo and Bulling, Andreas and Gellersen, Hans},
 title = {MotionMA: Motion Modelling and Analysis by Demonstration},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
 series = {CHI '13},
 year = {2013},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-1899-0},
 doi = {10.1145/2470654.2466171},
 acmid = {2466171},
 publisher = {ACM},
 ...
}
\end{lstlisting}

\noindent With \texttt{blockquote}: 
\blockquote{
  @inproceedings\{Velloso:2013:MMM:2470654.2466171,\\*   
   author = \{Velloso, Eduardo and Bulling, Andreas and Gellersen, Hans\},\\*    
   title = \{MotionMA: Motion Modelling and Analysis by Demonstration\},\\*    
   booktitle = \{Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\},\\*    
   year = \{2013\},\\* 
   isbn = \{978-1-4503-1899-0\},\\* 
   pages = \{1309--1318\},\\* 
   numpages = \{10\},\\* 
   url = \{http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2466171\},\\* 
   doi = \{10.1145/2470654.2466171\},\\* 
   acmid = \{2466171\},\\* 
   publisher = \{ACM\},\\* 
   address = \{New York, NY, USA\},\\* 
  \} \\* 
}


\end{document}

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '13 at 17:08

Use the new line \\*

\blockquote{
  @inproceedings\{Velloso:2013:MMM:2470654.2466171,\\*   
   author = \{Velloso, Eduardo and Bulling, Andreas and Gellersen, Hans\},\\*    
   title = \{MotionMA: Motion Modelling and Analysis by Demonstration\},\\*    
   booktitle = \{Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\},\\*    
   year = \{2013\},\\* 
   isbn = \{978-1-4503-1899-0\},\\* 
   pages = \{1309--1318\},\\* 
   numpages = \{10\},\\* 
   url = \{http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2470654.2466171\},\\* 
   doi = \{10.1145/2470654.2466171\},\\* 
   acmid = \{2466171\},\\* 
   publisher = \{ACM\},\\* 
   address = \{New York, NY, USA\},\\* 
  \} \\* 
}

Keep block quotes text on single lines

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