wrap caption around figure

[Ido M. Tamir]

Hi,

I can wrap some text around a figure with the wrapfig or picins package.

But how do I wrap the caption around its figure?
The caption is very long and the figure is rather small:

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Figure 5 Important figure | |
This is my caption it is very | Figure |
long and I dont want to waste | |
too much space on it. It should |_______________________|
be counted like a normal figure caption and appear in the
list of figures. I would really appreciate any help in
making this work.

thank you very much for your answer,

Ido

[Herbert Voss]

Ido M. Tamir wrote:

> But how do I wrap the caption around its figure?
> The caption is very long and the figure is rather small:
>

use packages nonfloat and floatflt/wrapfig

Herbert

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{floatflt}
\usepackage{nonfloat}
\textwidth=10cm% only demo
\begin{document}

\begin{floatingfigure}[r]{5.5cm}
\rule{5cm}{2cm}
\end{floatingfigure}%
\noindent\refstepcounter{figure}Figure \thefigure:\label{fig:1}

This is my caption it is very

long and I dont want to waste
too much space on it. It should

be counted like a normal figure caption and appear in the
list of figures. I would really appreciate any help in
making this work.

\medskip
The figure~\ref{fig:1} is a nice figure

\end{document}

[Justin Gombos]

In article <bt3n2h$p1j$04$1...@news.t-online.com>, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Ido M. Tamir wrote:
>
>> But how do I wrap the caption around its figure?
>> The caption is very long and the figure is rather small:
>>
>
> use packages nonfloat and floatflt/wrapfig

FYI folks-

wrapfig is more reliable than floatflt. floatflt (which is
recommended by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly in "Guide to LaTeX")
screws up when I use it. Figures overlap text. Try wrapfig first.