Adding red lines above and below a text 'Quote'

[Mark Pyman]

Hello,

I'm a new Affinity Publisher v2 user, creating a biography after importing from Word. Word has a nice feature called 'Intense quote' whereby the Quote character style gets a red line above and below it. Here's an example from within Word:I carefully removed all these 'intense quotes' from Word before importing into Affinity Publisher, as it didn't seem to convert properly.

Now I'm trying to duplicate this in Affinity Publisher v2. I've created a new Character style OK, called 'Intense quote', but cannot work out how to add straight red lines above it and below it to the standard style.

Help please!

Mark Pyman

 

 

[walt.farrell]

You can do that with Decorations in the Paragraph panel or in a Paragraph Text Style. (Not a Character Text Style; must be for a paragraph.) 

Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Text/decorations.html

 

[David in Яuislip]

Walt beat me again but I'm not giving up

[walt.farrell]

You at least have the screenshot, David, which I can't provide right now.

[Mark Pyman]

Walt, David,

Thank you both. Immensely. And I would never have worked it out without the double screenshot. It took me seven attempts to get the lines as I think they should be, but I'm almost there. Yea!

One small 'problem' that I cannot resolve.. I find that clicking on 'Update paragraph style' doesn't do anything at all. So each time I have had to 'Create paragraph style. Which is sort of OK but no good if I want to update all quotes to which the update is being applied. Any thoughts?

Thank you.

 

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Mark Pyman said:

One small 'problem' that I cannot resolve.. I find that clicking on 'Update paragraph style' doesn't do anything at all. So each time I have had to 'Create paragraph style. Which is sort of OK but no good if I want to update all quotes to which the update is being applied. Any thoughts?

It would help to have some screenshots of how you're doing that.

[Mark Pyman]

Walt, here's what I do..

Thanks if you can explain.

Mark

Trying to Update

 I go to "Text' along the top line and scroll down to Text Styles. Then I click on 'Update Paragraph Style'

Which shows me no style panes that I recognise...

 

But...

Or,  I go to 'Create Paragraph Style' from Text styles...

 

Which then gives me this, with the style panes I can edit

 

 

[walt.farrell]

In your second screenshot the Quote with Red 6 style is highlighted. You have the Text Styles panel confirmed to show examples, rather than just showing names, which may make that harder to recognize. 

[Mark Pyman]

Walt, Many Thanks. I'm not sure what that means but I'll hope to work it out in the coming days.

Mark

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Mark Pyman said:

I'm not sure what that means but I'll hope to work it out in the coming days.

I was referring to your comment that Update Text Style didn't show you any text styles panels you recognize.

Sorry for not being clear.

It wouldn't show you anything. It would just update the chosen Text Style based on the current definition of the text. If you want to see the Text Style, you right-click on it in the Text Styles panel and choose Edit. Or you make sure no text is selected, and you double-click on the entry in the Text Styles panel.