Re: Flowing text around a figure

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:49 PM 5/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I am trying to flow a paragraph around a figure. In fact, I'm trying to
>do something very much like the example in the manual section 13.3: the
>paragraph with the various cows. However, the graphic in my version of
>"\placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[bkoe]}" is getting overwritten
>by the text. Am I missing some necessary step?
>
>I note that in section 12.2, the way to do this seems to be with
>\startfiguretext... But the manual says: "When the text is longer than
>expected, then it will _not_ flow around the float." That seems to be
>true: when I try it the latter part of the paragraph does not flow under
>the figure.
>
>But I also see in that section that the text does flow under a
>left-aligned figure. As does the "cows" paragraph in 13.3 without using
>\startfiguretext at all. How do I do that?
>
>Am using 2002.5.20,

can you make me a minimal file that shows the problem?

Hans

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