Drop caps and quotation marks

When you create a drop cap in a paragraph through the "Drop Cap..." command of the "Insert" menu, or the corresponding button of the Insert toolbar , Atlantis always drops the first character of the paragraph:

But when the paragraph begins with a quotation:

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

Obviously, this does not look good.

And here is a solution:

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

2. Use the the "Drop Cap..." command of the "Insert" menu, or the corresponding button of the Insert toolbar to create a drop cap:

3. Click right before the created drop cap:

4. Type the quote mark:

5. Select the opening quote mark:

6. Choose the "Font..." command of the "Format" menu, or the corresponding button of the Font toolbar . Then apply the desired smaller font size:

and additional vertical offset:

Then OK out of the "Font Format" dialog:

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