floatflt
\begin{floatingfigure}[options]{width of figure} figure contents \end{floatingfigure}
There is a (more or less similar) floatingtable
environment.
multicol
package, but doesn’t work well
in the neighbourhood of list environments (unless you change your
LaTeX document).
wrapfig
\begin{wrapfigure}[height of figure in lines]{l,r,...}[overhang]{width} figure, caption, etc. \end{wrapfigure}
The syntax of the wraptable
environment is similar.
{l,r,etc.}
parameter may
also be specified as i
(nside) or
o
(utside) for two-sided documents, and uppercase
may be used to indicate that the picture should float. The
overhang allows the figure to be
moved into the margin. The figure or table will entered into the
list of figures or tables if you use the \
caption
command.
The environments do not work within list environments that end
before the figure or table has finished, but can be used in a
parbox or minipage, and in twocolumn format.
picins
\
parpic
(width,height)(x-off,y-off)[Options][Position]{Picture}
Paragraph text
All parameters except the Picture are optional. The picture can be positioned left or right, boxed with a rectangle, oval, shadowbox, dashed box, and a caption can be given which will be included in the list of figures.
Unfortunately (for those of us whose understanding of German is not good), the documentation is in German. Piet van Oostrum has written a summary in English.This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=textflow