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I am trying to place some pull quotes in my text and while I can do that, I would like to make the Speech marks at the start and end larger and of a different font, without affecting the leading of my first line.  Any help please would be greatly appreciated.

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Here's one way to do it.  First set up a paragraph style for pull quotes (Cambria, 12pt on 18pt, with decorations above and below), except for the oversize clown shoe punctuation.  Second, create a character style for the clown shoes.  I adjusted font size (48 pt), character baseline (arbitrariy -20pt by what looked good), and set leading override to the same as my pull quote paragraph style (18 pt in this case).

Now make a copy of your pull quote paragraph style, as you will have to adjust the top decoration to bring it back down to the height of the normal-sized text, rather than the oversided clown shoe punctuation.

In the attached .afpub file, look at paragraph style Pull Quote, applied to the top example, and paragraph style Pull Quote 2 together with character style Pull Quote Quote, applied to the bottom example.

While I did not do it in this quickly thrown-together example, your clown shoe character style can certainly also change the font as well as the size.

 

Giant Pull Quotes.png

Giant Pull Quotes.afpub

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