How to insert Paragraph/Picture between two columns?
I have tried finding out whether this is possible, but I can find any packages appear to solve my problem. Perhaps my inspiration isn't good typography.
The best solution I could find was flowfram, but I have not been able to get this to work. I only want to use this once. Wrapfig, TikZ, cutwin, shapepar, parshape, and paracol all seem to be able to party help, but I haven't gotten something that addresses my problem.
I want to insert a paragraph or an image between two columns such that the columns wrap around it. I would want this paragraph/image to be centred on the page, but in general it would be nice if I could offset it and have LaTeX still understand how to flow text around the obstacle.
I am using XeTeX. One of the packages that I am using works best with it, so if possible I'd prefer a solution that doesn't depend on LuaLaTeX.
The image isn't high quality, but a quick office mock-up of what I want to be able to do. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance
EDIT: I found this on the TeX Stack Exchange. The answer there is basically to follow this guide by the wrapfig package to adjust the paragraphs after writing them before inserting the fig. However, this is a hands-on process, and not a robust solution. I am looking for something that won't break when title formatting, whitespace, margins or the surrounding text content changes.
EDIT 2: I found out this is called a Pull Quote. 3 Relevant Tex Stack Exchange threads: Two-column text with circular insert, How do you create pull quotes?, Implementing a pullquotes algorithm in LaTeX. The former are answered by the author of the latter, with a package called pullquotes. The link for it does not appear to work, and I can't find it anywhere. But it seems that the code for the package is posted in Implementing a pullquotes algorithm in LaTeX. So for now, I guess that is the answer.