我正在使用ubuntu 软件包mla中的软件包texlive-humanities来格式化 MLA 风格的论文。不幸的是，有些地方有点不对劲，段落之间以及引用块的开头和结尾之间有一些额外的空格。我写错了吗，或者有命令可以关闭空格吗？
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\usepackage{mla}
%Xelatex Stuff
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{ellipsis}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}
\begin{document}
\begin{mla}{John}{Reeve}{Professor So-and-So}{Nietzsche's Impact on 20th Century Thought}{\today}{Nietzsche as Anthropologist of Religion: Theogony, Purity, Anthropomorphism}
Of course, Nietzsche does not predicate his theories on cultural difference to the extent that ethnographers do. One could also argue that his differences are not as dramatic as theirs, and would hardly count as difference. After all, the culture of the ancient Greeks, the culture Nietzsche dicusses the most after that of Germany, forms such a central part of western culture that it would seem \emph{prima facie} to provide less of a delta-value than would, say, a comparison with Bantu culture. Yet his analysis of Greek religion is more in-depth, perhaps, than that of the likes of James Frazer, whose “butterfly-collecting” anthropology has been criticized as decontextualizing the cultures he proports to discuss.
In an early (1908) lecture in anthropology, J.L. Myres declares that there are
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two kinds of anthropologists. \ldots\ There is an anthropologist to whom we go for our facts: the painful accurate observer of data, the storehouse of infinite detail. \ldots\ To him we go for our facts. \ldots\ His views may matter little. \ldots\ And there is an anthropologist to whom we look for our light. His learning may be fragmentary, \ldots\ but with shattered and ricketty instruments he attains results; heedless of epicycles, disrespectuful to the equator, he bequeaths his paradoxes to be demonstrated by another generation of men. [H]e has learnt to see; and what he sees he says (Haddon 100-1).
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答案1
该mla包定义了自己的 blockquote 环境blocks（用于单个段落）和blockm（用于多个段落），它们没有额外的垂直空间。它们还以单倍行距显示内容，这可能是您的教授想要的。
常规 LaTeXquote环境具有额外的垂直空间，因为它被视为列表。将此添加到您的序言中以消除常规列表垂直间距quote：
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\AtBeginEnvironment{quote}{\appto\@listi{\parsep\z@ \topsep\z@ \itemsep\z@}}
\makeatother