On 2011-04-28 Wolfgang Schuster
When using center, the quote is centered, but the text comes after the quote.
A feasible solution. It is eye-catching and easy to read.
And there are many ways to make it fancy: http://layersmagazine.com/indesign-paragraph-rules.html
I never doubted that pull quotes can't be fancy ;)
It would be nice if the text would flow around both sides of the quote,
Do you really think so? How would it look like? A three column layout: text left, pull quote, text right and the text continues in full-width?
http://www.elijournals.com/images/articleFigures/0302/msw0321a.gif
I intentionally didn't suggest a layout like this. 1st it has a horrible spacing and 2nd it's very hard to read.
This would mark up the text surrounding the pull quote as somehow different than the one preceding and following the pull quote and thus confuse the reader.
I don’t think so because it’s common in magazines but TeX isn’t the best tool for this.
Mostly in magazines the layout comes first and the readability second, that's why magazines can't be a measure for a readable layout. Best example is variable inter-character spacing.
• http://www.wyssdesign.com/Wyss_Design_Images/Bookprojects/Wyss_Design_Succes... • http://www.twopeaspublishing.com/assets/sample_pullquote.jpg
These both pull quotes are not centred.
• http://homeforprofits.com/wp-content/uploads/wikipedia-pullquote.png • http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-2897250-31035/Pictur...
This looks fine, it's common this way. But it only works in a two-column layout. I assumed we're talking about one column layouts. Marco