[Tex/LaTex] How to arrange image and text to appear side by side

Question

I want to place an image on my document and have it appear, say, on the right part of the page with text flowing on the left. How can I do that with LaTeX? Just like one would do with HTML and images “floating” to the right (or left).

(when searching I found some similar questions which, however, were closed. I'm actually asking the question because I think it is a good question and should have a good answer on the site. Btw, assume I'm not using beamer nor anything fancy.)

Answer 1

The wrapfig package is perhaps the best package to provide such functionality. The following is an example of how to use such package

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,wrapfig,lipsum}
%------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may 
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like.
%------------------------------------------
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{5.5cm}
\caption{A wrapped figure going nicely inside the text.}\label{wrap-fig:1}
\includegraphics[width=5.5cm]{sample}
\end{wrapfigure} 
%------------------------------------------
{\lipsum[2-3]
\par
Figure~\ref{wrap-fig:1} is a wrapped figure.
%------------------------------------------
\end{document}

Which produces the following output: