[OS X TeX] Text floating around a figure

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 27, 2014, at 2:24 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> 
> On May 26, 2014, at 10:24 PM, Don Green Dragon <fergdc at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Herb,
>> 
>> In reply to Andre, Herb wrote
>> 
>>> Howdy,
>>> 
>>> Well, the package is called pininpar not picins. I just ran
>>> 
>>> %%!TEX TS-program = pdflatex
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \usepackage{picinpar}
>>> \usepackage{floatflt}
>>> \begin{document}
>>> Hello World
>>> \end{document}
>>> 
>>> and had no problem loading both packages.
>> 
>> Are you implying that the environments 
>> 
>> \begin{window} . . . \end{window}    or    \begin{figwindow} . . . \end{figwindow}
>> 
>> actually work in your set up?
>> 
>> Is it necessary to include \usepackage{floatflt}?
>> 
>> I have tried to use the two examples in The LaTeX Companion, pages 108–109, but no luck. Despite the examples, I am not sure of the required format for either \begin{window}  or \begin{figwindow}. Here is a short version that I tried
>> 
>> \begin{figwindow}
>> [2, l, \tikz \draw (0,0) circle (3 pt); , {Run around Circle} ]
>> At least six lines of text that is supposed to flow around the small circle. Circle to be at the left margin.
>> \end{figwindow}
>> 
>> The error message is:
>> ================
>> ./LaTeXbookShort.tex:662: Use of \figwindow doesn't match its definition.
>> l.662 \begin{figwindow}
>> 
>> ? 
>> ==================
>> I tried adding the line \usepackage{floatflt} to the preamble but that did not help. I removed the caption {Run around Circle} and that made no difference. 
>> 
>> Can anyone point out the syntax error?
>> 
>> 
>> don green dragon
>> fergdc at shaw.ca
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> How old is the post you copied that from? It looks as though there was a problem of load order rather than use of those packages that I was discussing but I can't be sure.
> 
> Finally, did you try to put the drawing inside braces or in an \mbox so that it appears as a single argument? The comma in the \tikz command could be misinterpreted by the argument parser.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 

Howdy,

Enclosed is a file that uses the example on page 108 of `The LaTeX Companion'. I doubled the length of the paragraph since the text width is much larger than the example given.

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Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)