Tukka: Yes, the problem is vertical alignment to center.
Herbert: I have no floating figure, simple figure with no "Figure: " label.
The text is several paragraphs.
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Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Ramin Yasdi wrote:
>
> > I want to have a text with several lines on the left side of a figure.
> > I tried with a 1x2 table. Right column text and left column figure. It
> > is not working.
>
> What happens then? Did you use the multicolumn for those table cell
> which has several lines of text?
>
> It seemed to work fine here, except that I don't know how to set
> vertical alignment to center (if that is what you want).
>
> You could also try the multicolumn package and switch to two columns
> temporarily.