Page Layout ⇒ Textbox within article

[Dhondtie]

Hey,

I'm not completely new to LaTeX but I'm not used to work with special layout schemes, so that's why I thought it was a good idea to post my question here.

Momently I'm trying to create an article witch has a layout as shown in this picture:

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But I'm kind off clueless on how to achieve something like that.
Anyone who can push me in the right direction?

Many thanks,
Dhondtie

[gmedina]

I can't see the picture uploaded to ImageShack; please upload the picture to the board server.

[Dhondtie]

I can't see the picture uploaded to ImageShack; please upload the picture to the board server.

Sorry.
Now it should be attached to my post.

[gmedina]

One possible solution would be to use the wrapfig package (documentation in the file wrapfig.sty; in your case the file multiple-span.txt will give explain you the procedure). Working in the standard twocolumn mode is easy, but you won't have the vertical line separating the two columns:

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate filler text for the example

\begin{document}
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\begin{wrapfigure}[25]{r}[.5\width+.5\columnsep]{6cm}
\parbox{6cm}{\lipsum[1]}
\end{wrapfigure}
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\vfill
\end{wrapfigure}
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\end{document}

Edit: I haven't found a solution using the column separator.

[Dhondtie]

Thanks a lot!
Currently this is more then sufficient.
I'll do this first and try to have a coloured background later on.

[localghost]

[…] Currently this is more then sufficient. […]

Then please mark the topic (not the last post) accordingly as written in Section 3 of the Board Rules (to be read before posting).

Some time ago I answered a very similar question [1]. Unfortunately the initiator of that topic never gave feedback. So we don't know if the provided solution worked.

[1] View topic: Pull quotes, wrapfig, newenvironment not working


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten