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Thanks. This (with the included modifications) fixed everything except for one thing.

Before quote and quotation environments, I need a fixed, double space. The code you gave me correctly changes the space after these environments to a baseline skip. But before these environments, there is too much ...

Any ideas on how to fix my vertical spacing/indentation issues with quote+quotation environments? Thanks. Andrew

Thank you. This seems to have worked.

It is necessary for me for the first page numbers to appear at the bottom of the table of contents page, and for this to be page three in lower case roman numerals (It is assumed that the title page is page one, and a copyright page is page two.)

I'm using titlepage and copyrightpage and abstract ...

Thank you. This worked well. I added "singlespacing" to the definitions you provided and it appears to work.

Three other things with quotation/quote are now apparent:

quotation environment
1. Now second (third + fourth etc.) paragraphs are not indented. They need to be indented.

2. The spacing ...

Thank you; I did not look closely enough at your code. My apologies. As always you are very helpful.

LaTeX's default leaves the first paragraph after chapter, section, subsection etc. headings non indented. How do I make change this so that these are indented as other paragraphs are by default?

EDIT: I found a package that changes this setting, no need for help.

FYI: indentfirst.sty

.5" indent both sides.

I'll take a look at "wordlike." Thanks for the heads up.

I added your macro to my preamble with \noindent
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro{\quote}{\noindent}
\g@addto@macro{\quotation}{\noindent}
\makeatother
and it worked. Thanks

This, however, revealed another item I must address: This environment must be indented .5inches from the left according to ...

Thank you for your reply, and my apologies for not being specific enough, or for following your responses in the other posts. The titlesec modifications handled the section spacing issues.