[texhax] Wrap two-column text around centered float?

[Matthew Leingang]

Thanks for the workaround!


On 2/7/06 9:40 AM, "Lars Madsen" <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:

>> 
>> The wrapfigure environment from wrapfig.sty comes the closest; it works in
>> twocolumn mode and allows an overhang for the picture to go into the margin.
>> But you can't do both at the same time.  The left column will wrap around
>> the figure, but the right one will overwrite it.
>> 
> 
> wrapfigure can do it, but you have to create the 'empty' hole/gap by hand.
> See the example below. It's pain in the behind, but doable.
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{multicol,wrapfig}
> \usepackage[english]{babel}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{multicols}{2}
> We thrive in information||thick worlds because of our
> marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit,
> single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge,
> harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense,
> reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify,
> list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate,
> discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over,
> \begin{wrapfigure}{r}[2.5cm]{5cm}
>    \rule{5cm}{5cm}
> \end{wrapfigure}
> sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip,
> smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate,
> outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into,
> flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim,
> refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat
> from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats.
> 
> We thrive in information||thick worlds because of our
> marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit,
> single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge,
> harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense,
> reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify,
> list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate,
> discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over,
> sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip,
> smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate,
> outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into,
> flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim,
> refine, enumerate,
>   glean, synopsize,
> winnow the wheat
> from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats.
> We thrive in information||thick
> \begin{wrapfigure}{l}[2.5cm]{5cm}
>    \phantom{\rule{5cm}{5cm}}
> \end{wrapfigure}
> worlds because of our
> marvelous and everyday capacity to select, edit,
> single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge,
> harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense,
> reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify,
> list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate,
> discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick over,
> sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip,
> smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate,
> outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into,
> flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim,
> refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat
> from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats.
> \end{multicols}
> \end{document}
> 
> 
> 
> /daleif
> 
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> what they could and should do for themselves. ''
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