If you want certain pull-quotes to differ from the actual text in the <span>, turn on the "Use alternate text if available" option, then put the desired quotation in an HTML comment, like so:<span class="pullquote"><!-- This is a pullquote -->This, with some extra text we don't want, is a pullquote</span>
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If you are using the rich-text editor, you will have to click the "HTML" button to see the source code in order to do this.
Please note that you may not put a double dash ("--") in an HTML comment, as that ends the comment and will cause some weirdness on your page. This is a standard (if little-known) rule of HTML, and is not caused by this plugin.
CAUTION: Due to a bug in Safari (Mac OS X browser), alternate pull-quote text does not display. [UPDATED: The new Safari 3 beta version appears to have fixed this.] Assuming some of your readers might use this browser, you have two choices:
<span class="pullquote"><!-- Darn that Safari! --></span>Darn that Javascript-mangling Safari!
Please note that in either case, things should "Upgrade Gracefully", meaning that when Apple fixes the bug, we shouldn't have to change anything the alternate quotes will suddenly just work.