On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
hm, i prefer to start from user demands and personal needs; we used latex for a very short time and i don't remember mini pages -)
a minipage is a box, but i think it's in paragraph mode. \begin{minipage}[position]{width} text \end{minipage} Put two together \begin{minipage}[t]{.30\linewidth} text and images \end{minipage}\hfill % \begin{minipage}[t]{.60\linewidth} text and images \end{minipage} and you get two boxes horizontally across the page with the hfill space between them Put three together: \begin{minipage}[t]{.30\linewidth} text and images \end{minipage}\hfill % \begin{minipage}[t]{.30\linewidth} text and images \end{minipage}\hfill % \begin{minipage}[t]{.30\linewidth} text and images \end{minipage} and you get three boxes horizontally across the page with the hfill space between them Their vertical dimensions depend on the amount of content. They don't cross page breaks.