On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:56:45AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > hi all, > > occasionally i'll find a google groups link that's so useful that it'll > come up again and again in my searches. i happen to know that we have a > few more latex users here than we did a couple of years ago, so i'm > posting this in hopes that it'll be as useful to other people as it has > been for me. this is a truly wonderful post: > > http://www.google.com/groups?q=flow+around+text+group:comp.text.tex&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3unt1u%24i3r%40krant.cs.ruu.nl&rnum=1 > > the guy compares and contrasts different ways of getting text to flow > around floats. > > the reason why this is so noteworthy is: > > 1. the topic is not mentioned in the lamport book. > > 2. the topic is covered in the companion book, but the information is so > old that it's wrong. for example, my hat is off to anybody who > actually gets parpic to work well... > > > fwiw, i've found that picins is the best solution for wrapping text > around a float. here is an example of picins in use: > > \usepackage{epic,eepic,picins} > > \parpic{%
<snip> > works very well. a couple of notes: Thanks, Pete. Wasn't aware of these packages (although so far I use plain TeX more often than LaTeX. > 1. the "%" characters are comment characters. they help avoid > extraneous newlines. You won't need the %s if you are in vertical mode; \par (and ^^M^^M) is ignored in vertical mode. And since \usepackage{...} is followed by a line break, any paragraph will be ended at this point, and we'll be in virtical mode. <snip> -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech