[Solved] Highlight "pull quotes" using large font, inset in the text

[posaune]

I can't think of the name for this but magazines do it all the time: a line or two they want to highlight for the reader, so they put it in very large font, inset into the normal flow of text, perhaps with big quotation marks or in a different color.

I have an author who would like this done in her book.

Having never done it, I'm contemplating creating an image of the highlighted text and inserting it as an image or somehow using columns, if that can be done on just a single page at a time. I'm thinking creating an image is the best idea.

Any other ideas or is that the way it would be done?

Edit: Changed subject, was Paragraph large to highlight  Make your post understandable by others  -- MrProgrammer, forum moderator

[JeJe]

It'll be easier for people to understand what you want if you provide a picture or a link to something layed out that way.

Edit: Do you know about text frames?

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... age_layout

Edit 2: and Fontwork

https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... g_Fontwork

[FJCC]

A text frame might be useful for this. Take a look at the attached document. You can right click on the edge of the frame and select Frame to see how I set it up. There are many options. You might choose to wrap the text around the frame in a way different than what I chose.

[Bill]

I can't think of the name for this..."

Possibly "pull quote". There's not much on the forum about this subject:

[Solved] Using Frames for desktop publishing ???

Getting text to wrap text

Columns on the page

[posaune]

Many thanks to all. I'm just getting back to this and will look through those pages.

I've currently done it by creating an image of the text to be highlighted, used insert image, and given borders and shadows to each.