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I've been reading about pull quotes. In this question, a great answer is posted with a link to a custom package called pullquote.

I've installed this package and have been trying to make it work, as part of a document which already has two columns. Here's what I want to achieve:

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Here is a MWE:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{pullquote}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\begin{document}

\def\addquote
{%
  \Large
  \begin{tabular}[b]{p{5cm}}
    \textit{Wir m\"ussen wissen.}\\
    \textit{Wir werden wissen.}\\
    \mbox{}\hfill\large\textsc{David Hilbert}\\
  \end{tabular}%
}

\lipsum

\begin{pullquote}
  {
    object={\addquote}
  }
  \lipsum[1-3]
\end{pullquote}

\lipsum

\end{document}

This gives me THREE columns wherever the pull quote appears:

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I've taken code from this discussion about the issue, but can not make it work. Any idea how to implement a pull quote in a two-column layout?

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  • I think this is a duplicate: How do you create pull quotes?. – m0nhawk Apr 01 '13 at 09:18
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    @m0nhawk I've read that question and others here, but my question is specifically about the pullquote package, and about documents that are already formatted with two columns. The only other information on this same topic I found here came up in the discussion that I linked above, but not in a question with an answer. – please delete me Apr 01 '13 at 10:02
  • Please, change your username to something more significant. – Speravir Apr 01 '13 at 22:25
  • First: I get an output only with XeTeX and deactivated microtype (pullquote package option nomicrotype). You should have mentioned this. Second: This is a package in development (you could have known this from the package resource): What you show is clearly a bug, and for this kind of issues TeX.SX is the wrong place. In documentation an e-mail address is given, or you try to contact Stephan in chat of TeX.SX. – Speravir Apr 01 '13 at 22:44
  • Just to confirm I've seen this question ;-) I agree it would be better posed as a bug report on the launchpad site or in the answers to packages chat room. – Stephan Lehmke Apr 02 '13 at 04:34
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    A general question on how to get this kind of layout would not be too localized though. – Stephan Lehmke Apr 02 '13 at 04:34
  • @user Would it be okay if I reformulated your question to be more general? – Stephan Lehmke Apr 02 '13 at 16:32
  • Thanks all for feedback. @Speravir I thought I was simply not using pullquote properly, rather than this being a bug. But if it is, I understand this is not the right place to post this. @StephanLehmke, yes, please go ahead to change this questions to make it more general. I'll try to followup with a bug report at some point. Thanks. – please delete me Apr 02 '13 at 16:56

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