Time for action – embedding a picture within text

We shall modify our picture embedding an example. We would like the picture to appear on the left side, accompanied by the body text on the right side:

1. In our example, additionally load the wrapfig package:

   \documentclass[a5paper]{article}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}
   \usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
   \usepackage{wrapfig}
   \pagestyle{empty}
   \begin{document}

2. Begin an unnumbered section, place a wrapfig environment within some filler text:

   \section*{Text flowing around a picture}
   \blindtext
   \begin{wrapfigure}{l}{4.4cm}
   \includegraphics[width=4.4cm]{test}
   \caption{Test figure}
   \end{wrapfigure}
   \blindtext
   \end{document}

3. Typeset and look:

   

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The wrapfigure environment understands parameters other than the figure environment. We used just two of them. If you need more, here's the complete definition:

\begin{wrapfigure}[number of lines]{placement}[overhang] {width}

The first optional argument states the number of wrapped text...