floatsquotingwrapfigure
What is the easiest way to put a box for quotation wrapped within text as we do for figure with wrapfig. Like half-sized box of text in magazines. I am trying float, but I am not sure if it is the best choice for this purpose.
I am looking for a flexible solution: When the box content is long, split the box in two pages (continues to the next page along with the main text).
The package mdframed also tcolorbox use internal saveboxes. Inside such TeX-construction you can't use any floating material. So you have to adjust manual or avoid such an environment.
Although there was indeed a bug in my patch to the parcolumns package in the thread about alternating columns, it turned out that the wrapfigure problem here is an incompatibility between the parcolumns and wrapfig packages. You can see that from the following example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parcolumns}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand*{\dummypic}[1][dummy picture]{%
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt}%
\fbox{\begin{minipage}[t][2cm][c]{2cm}
\centering #1
\end{minipage}}%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{parcolumns}{2}
\colchunk[1]{%
\begin{wrapfigure}{l}{22mm}
\dummypic[\emph{left}]
\end{wrapfigure}\par
\lipsum[4]\par
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{22mm}
\dummypic[\emph{right}]
\end{wrapfigure}\par
\lipsum[5]
}
\colchunk[2]{%
\begin{wrapfigure}{l}{22mm}
\dummypic[\emph{left}]
\end{wrapfigure}\par
\lipsum[7]\par
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{22mm}
\dummypic[\emph{right}]
\end{wrapfigure}\par
\unskip\lipsum[8]
}
\end{parcolumns}
\end{document}
which compiles to:
The reason is that parcolumns inserts an \hfill between the two columns. wrapfigure, on the other hand, works by changing the width of the paragraph next to the figure. The \hfill will always shift the narrowed paragraph to the page margin.
The problem can be fixed by restricting the columns to their natural width, for example using an \hbox to <column width> {...}. I have implemented this into the small patch package parcolsx provided in the answer to the question about alternating columns. I do not know if that is the most elegant way to solve the problem, but it works.
I will for now not re-post the code here. If that is desired I (or someone else) can do it later.
Best Answer
I might have misunderstood the question... but I think you want to wrap the quotation within text. It can be achieved using
wrapfigpackage.If you want the box to span many pages, then the
mdframedoption suggested in the other answer should be followed.