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QuarkXPress How-To: Creating Shaped Text Boxes and Columns

How-Tos: Written by Michael Baumgardt on July 21, 2004

Who says columns of text have to be chunky rectangles? Time to think outside the box. Create sinuous rivers of words or serrated-edge text columns by trying a few text-box tricks in QuarkXPress 6. Here's how.

QuarkXPress How-To: Experimenting with Initial Caps and Text Runarounds

How-Tos: Written by Michael Baumgardt on May 19, 2004

Adding punch to a text-heavy layout in QuarkXPress can be as easy as using initial caps to start a paragraph or making text run around a graphic to break up a column. But learn a few new tricks and your layout can deliver a knockout blow. Here's how.