multi-column div question

Question

I would like to create a section in my single column
container have multiple columns.
Since DivElement is a subclass of ContainerFormattedElement I
figured this would be a good place to start.

I would like to make the div 2 columns, in the first column
place an inlineGraphic, and in the second column place a few lines
of text span/br/span/br/span.

The trickiness would seem to be...
How do I get the columns to be different for a div versus the
overall TextFlow?
How do I indicate where the column should break (after the
InlineGraphic)?

This entire thing would go away if we simply had float
working with InlineGraphic, but that does not seem to be coming
abytime soon, so this would be a workable solution for the time
being.

The attached markup was generated by using actionscript code
and exporting via TextFilter...
Any thoughts?

Is anybody out there?
Thanks,
Tim

robin_briggs · Accepted Answer

DivElement doesn't support columns -- although I think it should someday, which is why the API is suggestive. I think it would be possible to emulate this, but it would require breaking the text into two TextFlows. Flow text through the first container, thentake the overflow text and copy it into a second flow that would flow into the second container.

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