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Drop caps and quotation marks

When you create a drop cap in a paragraph through the "Drop Cap..." command of the "Insert" menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

Main menu
, or the corresponding button Button image of the Insert toolbar The 'Insert' toolbar , Atlantis always drops the first character of the paragraph:

First character dropped

But when the paragraph begins with a quotation:

Paragraph beginning with a quotation

and you create a drop cap, the opening quote mark gets automatically dropped:

Dropped quotation mark

Obviously, this does not look good.

And here is a solution:

1. Delete the opening quote mark – just select it, and press Del:

Deleted quotation mark

2. Use the the "Drop Cap..." command of the "Insert" menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

Main menu
, or the corresponding button Button image of the Insert toolbar The 'Insert' toolbar to create a drop cap:

A dropped capital

3. Click right before the created drop cap:

Text cursor before the drop cap

4. Type the quote mark:

Typed quotation mark

5. Select the opening quote mark:

Selected quotation mark

6. Choose the "Font..." command of the "Format" menu The main menu or simply menu is a horizontal bar with clickable commands anchored to the top of the main window of Atlantis:

Main menu
, or the corresponding button Button image of the Font toolbar The 'Font' toolbar . Then apply the desired smaller font size:

Changing font size

and additional vertical offset:

Offsetting text vertically

Then OK out of the "Font Format" dialog:

Dropping a quotation mark plus a capital

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