On 08/30/2018 12:44 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
When I want to insert a small figure (half-column width) with text on the
other half column, my first thought would be to usepackage{\multicols}
and
shift into 2-column mode for the figure, then back to 1-column mode.
There should be a better way (perhaps with a frameless box?) yet I
don't
see anything like that in the wiki's graphics section.
I need a pointer to a manual or wiki page that teaches me the better
way.
Regards,
Rich
I usually start by putting two frameless mini-pages side by side,
scaling each to strictly less than 50% of column width. Next, I park the
figure in one and text in the other, and if necessary scale the width of
the figure to something less than 100% of column width ("column width"
here being the width of the box, not the width of the text column on the
page). If the figure is small to start with, that might be unnecessary.
Finally, since I've never figured out a way to approach this
systematically, I randomly fiddle with the box and content alignment
settings for each box until things line up the way I want them. For
instance, I just did a little test, and would up with both boxes having
content alignment "top" and box alignment "middle". This might be the
first time I ever got both boxes to use the same alignment values. :-)
Paul
