name shapepar category Package shortdesc A macro to typeset paragraphs in specific shapes. longdesc \shapepar is a macro to typeset paragraphs in a specific shape. longdesc The size is adjusted automatically so that the entire shape is longdesc filled with text. There may not be displayed maths or "\vadjust" longdesc material (no "\vspace") in the argument of \shapepar. The macros longdesc work for both LaTeX and plain TeX. For LaTeX, specify longdesc \usepackage{shapepar}, or for Plain, \input shapepar.sty. longdesc \shapepar works in terms of user-defined shapes, though the longdesc package does provide some predefined shapes: so you can form any longdesc paragraph into the form of a heart by putting longdesc \heartpar{sometext...} inside your document. The tedium of longdesc creating these polygon definitions may be alleviated by using the longdesc shapepatch extension to transfig which will convert xfig output to longdesc \shapepar polygon form. [description copied from TeX Catalogue]