make blockquote a default, opt-out via 'plainquote: true'

[eddelbuettel]

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[aaronwolen]

👍 plainquote is a great name.

[aaronwolen]

I'm considering reimplementing blockquote using the framed package, which is a knitr dependency, so one less thing the user needs to worry about installing.

What do you think?

[eddelbuettel]

I am confused. How can a CTAN package be a dependency of knitr, a CRAN package.

Despite 25+ years of latex, framed was new to me. But I learned about it for pinp, and what is does in linl seems similar and "good enough". Exactly which part needs replacing? Is framed only in extended texlive (et al)?

[eddelbuettel]

And BTW you can merge. Esp if you approve :)

But if you'd rather discuss more that is cool too.

[aaronwolen]

And BTW you can merge. Esp if you approve :)

Done. I wasn't sure if you wanted final cut.

I am confused. How can a CTAN package be a dependency of knitr, a CRAN package.

Ah, sorry. I worded that poorly. It's not technically a dependency: knitr uses framed to draw code blocks in PDFs, so it's a requirement to run knit2pdf(), for example. If framed is not installed on your machine knitr provides the following warning and helpfully drops a copy of framed.sty in your working directory:

Warning message:
In knitr:::test_latex_pkg("framed", system.file("misc", "framed.sty",  :
  unable to find LaTeX package 'framed'; will use a copy from knitr

So if we reimplement blockquote using framed then we can just grab knitr's copy and avoid pestering the user with a missing .sty error.

That said, both framed and mdframed are included in texlive-latex-extra, so this really only affects that small group of micromanagers (like me) who opt for texlive-core (or BasicTex) and then install other CTAN packages as needed.

[eddelbuettel]

Thanks for merging. I am with you on the worry about minimal versus extended LaTeX installations. But a macOS friend opening my eyes there (ie: they install even more than us) and the miktex folks add as needed.

So in sum: I think we could just leave it as is. I have 25+ years worth of latex letters, and I may have use quoting less than a handful of times in the letters. Whaddayouthink?

[aaronwolen]

That makes sense. Maybe I'll revisit in the future after more pressing issues are addressed.