%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004) %% %% Example 3-1-52 on page 108. %% %% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, %% Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{ttctexa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{207.0pt} \sloppy %as the column in the book is so small \StartShownPreambleCommands \usepackage{picinpar} \StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} \begin{window}[1,c,% \fbox{\shortstack{H\\e\\l\\l\\o}},] In this case we center a word printed vertically inside the paragraph. It is not difficult to understand that tables can also be easily included with the \texttt{tabwindow} environment.\par When a paragraph ends, like here, and the window is not yet finished, then it just continues past the paragraph boundary, right into the next one(s). \end{window} \end{document}