[texhax] Centering "framed box" between two columns

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

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

Uwe

2018-01-30 19:22 GMT+01:00 Paul Gessler <pdgessler at gmail.com>:

> 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
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