Max Nikulin writes: > It is not necessary complex layout. It is a decoration similar to > pictures in fiction books. Unlike figures such additions are not > strictly important to understand material. In printed form it is like > figures however. Insets are appropriate in particular places, but > tolerate some shift due to paging. Generally, any scenario where graphic and textual content must be distributed and managed is already complex layout. Although there are several levels of complexity, and in many cases visual control is necessary. In any case, TeX is not intended for (stricto sensu) layout but for typesetting, which is where DTP programs often fail. This does not mean that highly complex pages cannot be achieved in TeX, but the strong point of TeX is the automation of processes and repeated structures, while the strong point of DTP programs is visual layout design, more focused on magazines, newspapers, posters, etc. There are "intermediate places", and in TeX there are still unresolved issues. For example: the possibility of working with independent text flows (for example, create two parallel TeX processes: one for even pages and another for odd pages) or grid typesetting (in LaTeX it is almost impossible and in ConTeXt some advances have been made) although I am very critical of the grid composition, which has become a plague lately. Anyway, in order not to get too off the topic, here are a couple of examples that I made (one of them with flowfram), exporting an inline task to LaTeX through an ad hoc filter: https://i.imgur.com/8ERXNWp.png https://i.imgur.com/mpFRL9h.png (code attached) Best regards, Juan Manuel