[texhax] figures and text aligned

[Herbert Gintis]

At 07:04 PM 3/14/2004 +0100, Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:
> > I am trying to place a \figure side by side with some text. That
> > is, I want the
> > figure to take up only part of the width of the page and then
> > have text placed
> > on the rest of the width. It appears that I am not doing my
> > search very well, as I don't find anything useful.
>
>Obviously, you didn't look at the FAQ indicated at the foot of all postings.
>
>Otherwise, you would have found Q. 207 "Flowing text around figures in
>LATEX."
>
>Cordialmente,  Philip G. Ratcliffe
         I know from experience with this list that we are supposed to be 
embarrassed when we ask a question which has an answer in the FAQ. I also 
know from experience that using the FAQ is extremely difficult, or else I 
don't know how to use it. Even after seeing your response Philip, it took 
me about ten minutes to find the correct location of Q. 207. I used 
"flowing text" and then read through many entry titles in the reply.
         The fact is, the FAQ doesn't work right, because it is not 
organized properly. I don't mean this as a criticism, but rather as a 
comment. I also don't know for sure what to do about it.
         I suspect that hooking up to a really powerful local search 
engine, like google, would do the trick. I can usually find anything with 
google.
         Indeed, typing "wrap text around figure latex" in the google 
command line gave me a wealth of clues, including some latex packages. I'm 
sure that using the FAQ and typing in the name of one of the packages with 
the FAQ search engine will do the trick.

HG


Herbert Gintis
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute
Adjunct Professor, Barnard College, Columbia 
University
Emeritus Professor, University of Massachusetts
15 Forbes Avenue, Northampton, MA 01060
413-586-7756  (Home Office) 206-984-9873 (Fax)
Recent papers are posted on my <http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~gintis>web site.
Get Game Theory Evolving (Princeton, 2000) at 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691009430/qid=1057311870/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-8882889-4632849?v=glance&s=books>Amazon.com
Look for Moral Sentiments and Material Interests,
    forthcoming from MIT Press (2004)
        There is no sorrow so great that does not find
       its background in joy.
                                                             Niels Bohr (1938)


                                  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20040314/6d4be3a1/attachment.htm