[OS X TeX] Text floating around a figure

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 1, 2011, at 7:09 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:

> 
> Le 2 oct. 2011 à 01:46, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 1, 2011, at 6:41 PM, André Bellaïche wrote:
>> 
>>> In TeXLive 2010 as well as in TeXLive 2011, there are no more picins or floatflt package. I suppose these package were considered as obsolete. 
>>> 
>>> There is still the picinpar package, but is does not work very well: the figure and the text overlap.
>>> 
>>> So, how can we get floating text around a figure? Please note I don't need that the figure be floating also. I am perfectly happy if it begins at line number so and so of my paragraph, and stay there. 
>>> 
>>> André Bellaïche
>> 
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I find both picinpar.sty and floatflt.sty in TeX Live 2011.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
> 
> This is what I get:
> 
> =====
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
> [...]
> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amscls/amsart.cls
> Document Class: amsart 2009/07/02 v2.20.1
> (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
> For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
> [...]
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found.
> =====
> 
> Same thing for floatflt:
> 
> =====
> ! LaTeX Error: File `floatflt.sty' not found.
> =====
> 
> picinpar is present, but does not work very well.
> 
> André


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.

Try running

kpsewhich picinpar.sty

and

kpsewhich floatflt.sty

and see what that returns. On my system they return

/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/picinpar/picinpar.sty

and

/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/floatflt/floatflt.sty

respectively.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)