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I am writing lab reports for the department.  Some of the figures in
the labs, are taller than they are wide and would look wery good if
they could be typeset in this way:

put  of  text over the figure but|
leave space for  the figure below|
the current line of text fill out| 
a bunch of filled          	 |
text on this side	         |
but   leave  room                |
for  a  figure on         	 |
the   right  hand              	 |
side.                            |
yet more     text   Figure 1:    |
and more     text    caption     |
text below the figure environment|
and  yet  more  text on the page.|
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I know I can create the correct line length for the text, by using
textwidth or TeX's parshape.  Unfortunately, I have to hand insert the
comands for returning the line length to the correct length.  Also,
this scheme won't let me use the figure environment in latex to do my
numbering and captioning.

What I would like is to have a figure environment with an optional
width parameter that will create a box of that width and fill text
around the figure automagically.  

Does anybody have the correct files/macros or am I trying to force
LaTeX to do something that it can't (easily) do.

Please Email to me, I don't think this is worth cluttering up the net
with.  If I get reasonable responses, I will summarize.

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Person: John Rouillard  Physics Major
U.S. Snail: Physics Department; U-Mass Boston; Harbor Campus; Boston, MA 02125
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