I have heard that LaTeX is not necessarily suited to make panels. That even two-column is difficult to get the text to align. I would like to draw stuff like this:

```
---------------------------
|________________|________|
|________|________________|

```

Using rectangles of appropriate dimension. Here is a better example.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GhxLE.png)

I was thinking of trying with Tikz and using their nodes... I don't know if that's possible or if there is even easier way.

Here is what I tried. The rectangles don't align properly.

```
\begin{tikzpicture}[xshift=-0.5in]

\node[draw,thick,rectangle,fill=blue!20, text width=3in, align=left] at (0,0){ \begin{minipage} [t][3in]{3in}  $\int$  $\partial$.  \end{minipage}};

\node[draw,thick,rectangle,fill=blue!20, text width=3in, align=left] at (3.25in,0.25in) { \begin{minipage} [t][3in]{2in}  $\int$  $\partial$.  \end{minipage}};

\node[draw,thick,rectangle,fill=blue!20, text width=3in, align=left] at (0,3.25in) { \begin{minipage} [t][3in]{3in}  $\int$  $\partial$.  \end{minipage}};

\node[draw,thick,rectangle,fill=blue!20, text width=3in, align=left] at (3.25in,3.25in) { \begin{minipage} [t][3in]{2in}  $\int$  $\partial$.  \end{minipage}};

\end{tikzpicture}

```