The ability to specify columns is awesome... now can I have an image (or table) span a column and a half, where the columns continue to flow as they would in a magazine?

a crude example:

Lorem Ipsum Lorem       Some Text Here See
Ipsum Lorem Ipsum       Text Here See Some 
Lorem Ipsum Lorem       Some Text Here See
Ipsum Lorem Ipsum       Text Here See Some
Lorem Ipsum Lorem       Some Text Here See
Ipsum Lorem Ipsum       Text Here See Some
-------------------------------| Some Text
                               | Here See 
                               | Some Text
                               | Here See
-------------------------------| Some Text
Ipsum Lorem Ipsum       Text Here See Some
Lorem Ipsum Lorem       Some Text Here See
Ipsum Lorem Ipsum       Text Here See Some 
Lorem Ipsum Lorem       Some Text Here See

Not yet, this is something we hope to add in future.

Is there anything new to this feature?
I would also like to use it.

Not yet, sorry. You can use column-span to cover two columns in some cases, but not half.

Thanks so far.
Is it possible to span two columns without affecting the textflow?
I want the text to fill the whole first column on the current page and then start in the second one. Till now, the second column ignores the space the picture needs and overflows it.

The result should look like this:

|-----------|-----------|
|   Row 1   |   Row 6   |
|   Row 2   |   Row 7   |
|   Row 3   |   Row 8   |
|-----------------------|
|         Image         |
|-----------------------|
|   Row 4   |   Row 9   |
|   Row 5   |   Row 10  |
|-----------|-----------|

What happens is this:

|-----------|-----------|
|   Row 1   |   Row 6   |
|   Row 2   |   Row 7   |
|   Row 3   |   Row 8   |
|---------------Row-9---|
|         Image Row 10  |
|---------------Row-11--|
|   Row 4   |   Row 12  |
|   Row 5   |   Row 13  |
|-----------|-----------|

Be aware that I don't want this:

|-----------|-----------|
|   Row 1   |   Row 4   |
|   Row 2   |   Row 5   |
|   Row 3   |   Row 6   |
|-----------------------|
|         Image         |
|-----------------------|
|   Row 7   |   Row 9   |
|   Row 8   |   Row 10  |
|-----------|-----------|

Edited 16 Oct 2015 by tkreis

I don't think that is possible at the moment, it requires magazine-style layout.

I would like to reiterate johnathonwright's original post, 18 Jan 2011, top of this thread. Is this feature available now, and if not, are there plans to implement it? (image or other inset spanning ~1.5 columns, with text flowing around the remaining ~.5 as it would in a magazine). Great feature, if you ever get around to it.

Thanks!

One day.

Understood. Thanks.

One other thing, unrelated: on your examples page, there are links to HTML versions of all except The Magic of Prince -- only pdf. I would like to take a look at the HTML, for learning. Maybe you want to add a link to the HTML on that examples page?

It's there, just a link is missing!
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2016/samples/magic6/magic.xhtml
We'll try to fix this, thanks for pointing it out!