[texhax] Centering "framed box" between two columns

Jan de Ruijter mosgowi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 11:43:15 CET 2018


maybe you can use this:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124305/wrap-text-around-wide-figure-in-two-column

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:35:17 -0800 (PST), Donald Arseneau stated:
>
> >On Tue, January 30, 2018 10:29 am, Uwe Ziegenhagen wrote:
> >> Using a wild set of keywords I found the following, which seems to be
> >> quite promising:
> >> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53073/two-column-
> text-with-circular-insert
> >
> >I just downloaded the pullquote package, to see what it is doing.
> >It looks wonderful from the pictures.
> >
> >The instructions for using wrapfig this way are in ctan:
> >macros/latex/contrib/wrapfig/multiple-span.txt
> >but it is ugly manual fiddling.
> >
> >LuaTeX in concert with textpos should be capable of automatically
> >locating the alignment positions in the two columns, with a bunch
> >of work.
>
> "textpos" isn't suitable for the process. It will place the object
> anywhere I
> want it; however, it is superimposed on the text. The text does not flow
> around it.
>
> I am finding it rather hard to believe that something MS Word does so
> effortlessly, is for all practical purposes, impossible in LaTeX. If I had
> the
> ability, which I don't, I would create a package that does just that.
>
> --
> Jerry
>
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