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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label textflow</title>
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-<h3>Flowing text around figures in LaTeX</h3>
+<h3>Flowing text around figures</h3>
<p/>There are several LaTeX packages that purport to do this, but they
all have their limitations because the TeX machine isn&rsquo;t really
designed to solve this sort of problem. Piet van Oostrum has
@@ -63,11 +63,22 @@ LaTeX document).
good), the documentation is in German. Piet van Oostrum has written
a summary in English.
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+Plain TeX users only have one option: <i>figflow</i> (which
+doesn&rsquo;t work in LaTeX). <i>Figflow</i> only offers flowed
+figures at the start of the paragraph, but it seems perfectly
+functional. Syntax is
+<blockquote>
+ <code>\</code><code>figflow{</code><em>&lt;<i>width</i>&gt;</em><code>}{</code><em>&lt;<i>height</i>&gt;</em><code>}{</code><em>&lt;<i>figure</i>&gt;</em><code>}</code>
+</blockquote><p>
+(the user is responsible for having the dimensions correct, and for
+ensuring the figure fits on the page).
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-<dt><tt><i>floatflt.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt.zip">macros/latex/contrib/floatflt</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>picins.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/picins.zip">macros/latex209/contrib/picins</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>picins documentation summary</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archivemacros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.txt">macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.txt</a>
-<dt><tt><i>wrapfig.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wrapfig.zip">macros/latex/contrib/wrapfig</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wrapfig/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>figflow.tex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/figflow.zip">macros/plain/contrib/figflow</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/figflow/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>floatflt.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt.zip">macros/latex/contrib/floatflt</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>picins.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/picins.zip">macros/latex209/contrib/picins</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/">browse the directory</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>picins documentation summary</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.txt">macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.txt</a>
+<dt><tt><i>wrapfig.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wrapfig.zip">macros/latex/contrib/wrapfig</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wrapfig/">browse the directory</a>)
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+<p><em>This answer last edited: 2009-06-11</em></p>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=textflow">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=textflow</a>
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