Publisher - How to create a header style with a visual decoration prior to the text, and outside of the tab?

[jkolko]

I want to create a new style that acts as a header, having a light grey vertical bar next to it; the text, and the subsequent plain text, is hard left aligned, but the grey vertical bar floats outside of it.

Thoughts? 

[Brian_J]

You can do that with Text Style Decorations in Affinity Publisher. In the attached .afpub file, take a look at the Block Quote text style.

Block Quote.afpub

[jkolko]

Fantastic. Thank you very much.

[Brian_J]

@jkolko Just an afterthought…

If the “block quote” text style will always be applied to only one or two lines of text (i.e., it won’t be applied to multiple, consecutive paragraphs), you can make two changes to the Block Quote text style in the example file I provided so that when typing text, pressing the Enter/Return key will automatically switch to your desired paragraph style after the “block quote“ style.

In the Edit Text Style dialog:

• Style section — change Next style to the text style you want applied to paragraphs that follow “block quotes.”
• Decorations section — uncheck Combine identical.