[texhax] Centering "framed box" between two columns

Kalantari, Iraj i-kalantari at wiu.edu
Tue Jan 30 19:56:59 CET 2018


I became interested in this item.

Went to
https://seibercom.net/Screenshot%202018-01-30%2013.38.34.png

The example calls for

pullquote.sty



which I have not been able to find.


Help?


Thank you.


Iraj.




On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 12:22:03 -0600, Paul Gessler stated:
>
> >I do believe Uwe was asking for a screenshot of how it looks in MS Word,
> so
> >we know exactly what you are looking for.
> >
> >I am imagining it is something like this but I may be wrong:
> >
> >--------------------------
> >| Title spanning columns |
> >--------------------------
> >
> >Column  one | Column  two
> >text  flows | text   also
> >around -----------  flows
> >a  box |  TEXT   | around
> >that   |   BOX   |   this
> >has    ----------- box of
> >author info | text   with
> >or    other | info  about
> >metadata.   | the piece.
> >
> >Of course, for the purposes of my rough example, disregard the poor
> >justification [(La)TeX can do a better job of it than me!] and column/box
> >separator lines I added for clarity. You may or may not want these lines
> in
> >your articles. All the more reason that it would be good to see an image
> of
> >what you are trying to re-create in TeX. :-)
> >
> >PG
> >
> >On 30 January 2018 at 11:24, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:35:01 +0100, Uwe Ziegenhagen stated:
> >>
> >> >Can you send a small picture or screenshot?
> >>
> >> I don't know what good a screen shot would do since I cannot get it to
> >> work.
> >> It is just an article title that spans 2 columns and then two columns of
> >> text
> >> underneath. I want to place a text box centered between the two columns
> >> approximately one inch below the start of the article text. The text in
> the
> >> columns must flow around the text box. I can do this easily in MS Word,
> >> but I
> >> cannot figure out how to accomplish it it LaTeX.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jerry
>
> Screen shot attached. It is also viewable here:
> https://seibercom.net/Screenshot%202018-01-30%2013.38.34.png
>
> --
> Jerry
>
>
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