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From: [e-mail] (Jean Orloff)
Subject: \inserts Was: Psfig/TeX with plain TeX
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>>>>> On 5 Nov 92 19:26:05 GMT, [e-mail] (Kenneth H. Beown) said:

K> Does anyone use psfig/TeX to include postscript figures in TeX
K> documents?  I'm trying to include figures, and I would like to be
K> able to give the command for inserting the figure \psfig{...} and
K> then have TeX place the figure at the top of the current or
K> succeeding page and have TeX appropriately wrap text around the
K> figure, e.g. if the figure is going to be place at the top of the
K> next page, TeX should pull text from after the command \psfig{...}
K> to fill the preceding page.  Can someone tell me home to do this
K> please.  Thanks in advance.

What you want is precisely what \insert's are made for (read the
TeXbook). However \inserts are sometime surprising. For instance,
\midinsert is supposed to put your figure at the current point
(between 2 paragraphs) if there is enough vspace, or at the top of the
next page otherwise (if there is no \insert coming from the previous
page). Apparently, I heard of deviations to this: things like finding
the insert 2 pages away for no apparent reason.

If what you want is really wrap the text around the figure, like what
you commonly see in WHYSIWHYG's like Word, the problem is more
serious, and to my knowledge, nothing really solid exists. So come on
TeX-hackers, you don't want your baby to be beaten by WHYSIWHYG's,
come up with something!

Jean
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