Initial attempts with a table did not work. The description of "picture" sounds like the box can be placed anywhere with the xoffset and yoffset parameter. But this does apparently not work. As a result only the first area appears in the right place, all others are missing or misplaced.
So my question is: how to I define 4 areas of text, one of them should be in portrait. Is the latter even possible?
The circle in the following examples are just a helper for me to indicate where the boxes will finally appear in the document. They will be removed in the final version.
Thanks for the help.
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\documentclass[a4paper,landscape]{article}\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\usepackage[margin=10mm]{geometry}\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}\usepackage{helvet}%% DIN A4 paper, 4 independent areas (DIN A6)% each area 148.5x105.0mm, border 10mm% landscape | portrait% landscape | landscape%\begin{document}\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}\begin{picture}(128.5,85.0)(0,0)\put(0,0){\circle{1}}\put(128.5,0){\circle{1}}\put(0,85){\circle{1}}\put(128.5,85){\circle{1}}\put(0,0){%\makebox(128.5,85.0){%\fontsize{15}{19}\selectfont\parbox{128.5mm}{%\bfseries\begin{center}Head line\end{center}Long line which is supposed to wrap nicely.\newline\newlineSecond long line which is supposed to wrap nicely.}% end of parbox}% end of makebox}% end of put\end{picture}\begin{picture}(128.5,85.0)(0,95.0)\put(0,0){\circle{1}}\put(128.5,0){\circle{1}}