[texhax] Centering "framed box" between two columns

[Paul Gessler]

Hi, as discussed in the comments to the answer to the TeX.SX question[1],
unfortunately pullquote is not available on CTAN because the author feels
it has shortcomings and doesn't feel it would have broad enough usage to
justify the effort in reducing those shortcomings.

Since it's not on CTAN, using it is a bit of a manual process. Also, since
it's not released, the usage of the package may change without warning and
support is somewhat "at your own risk", though typically the TeX community
is pretty good at supporting bits of code like this. Knowing this, if you
still want to use pullquote, you have to grab the pullquote.dtx file (and
pq-alice.jpg and pq-duck.pdf from the same directory in order to produce
the documentation) from the development sources[2] and process it into a
usable .sty file for your local machine. There is also a test file
pullquote_test.tex in the same development repository so you could test
your generated pullquote.sty file.

There are numerous articles/posts around the web about processing .dtx
files if you've never done this before.

Hope this helps,

PG

[1]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/53073/21344
[2]:
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tex-sx/tex-sx/development/view/head:/pullquote.dtx

On 30 January 2018 at 13:40, Peter Wilson <herries.press at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> I have vague recollections of a pullquote package. I haven't found it but
> it might have been described in a TUGboat article. There is my and Alan
> Hoenig's cutwin package which might be of some help but it does not
> directly deal with two-column text.
>
> Peter W.
>
> On 30/01/18 18:56, Kalantari, Iraj wrote:
>
>
> 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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