: 2nd character drop cap? I use InDesign 4. I do a lengthy quarterly journal for a non-profit. I always start my articles with a drop cap, but now I have one that begins with a open quotation

@Marchetta832

I feel your pain — I recently had the same dilemma — after several frustrating hours and a lot of web searching I settled on this solution:
use a paragraph style with 2 nested character styles

Example explanation {you can use your own choice of "paragraph" & 'character' style names - these are the ones I used):

"Drop Cap Quote2" (paragraph style)
drop cap: lines = 2 (or however many you want) / characters = 2 / styles = none
(The character styles can be predefined or created through the add new style section of this submenu.)
nested styles: (add new style) 'DropCap-Quote' [through] [1] [characters] /
(add new style) 'DropCap-Letter' [through] [1] [letters]

'DropCap-Quote' (character style)
(these settings will probably need some adjustment - use whatever looks good to the font you are using)


add a bit of positive tracking > +10 or so
{Advanced Character Formats} Horizontal scale = 73% / vertical scale = 75% / Base Line shift +6


'DropCap-Letter' (character style)
(set this character to the font size & leading that you are using for the rest of the paragraph text - you can set this character to be bold or a colour as well)
- add positive tracking > +75 or so

It takes a bit to setup - but once done it should save you a lot of time.

HG

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@Speyer780

When I've seen this happen in books, I've seen the quotation mark included in the drop cap (so two characters). Otherwise the quote mark becomes invisible. If you're determined, though, I would remove it from your main text frame and set it in its own frame individually in the margin.

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