wrapfigure
I've created a wrapfig environment
\newenvironment{usefulterms}{
\begin{wrapfigure}{l}[0pt]{0.05\textwidth}
\vspace{-15pt}
\includegraphics[width = 0.05\textwidth]{abc.jpg}
\vspace{-25pt}
\end{wrapfigure}
\noindent{\textbf{Useful Terms}} \\
\newline}
{\newline}
The problem is that even thought I specify an overhang of 0pt, it is still placed in the margin;
Why is this command being "disobeyed"?
Thanks
Nick
I know it's not really an answer to the question but I'd try to avoid wrapfigure altogether. There are two alternative packages called picinpar and picins. picins is often considered the successor of picinpar but I don't like it personally. In its documentation the amount of bad typography is only surpassed by the number of drop shadow effects.
picinpar will not solve all your problems and it doesn't support any floating as the R and L parameters to wrapfig do (as Stefan pointed out) but it will manage decent spacing, justification and possibilities to mitigate bad luck. You can (and must) pass the number of lines above the image as an argument. The syntax is a bit cryptic but the following example might illustrate its usage (sorry it's in German), as does the good package documentation.
If this doesn't help, try some related questions like How to wrap text around a figure? and wrapfigure cuts off images at the end of the page.
The following code shows three options, all of them using features provided by the caption package: the first one, uses \caption*; the second one uses \captionsetup to declare the predefined labelformat=empty style to suppress the label; the third option uses \DeclareCaptionLabelFormat to define a caption format without number but keeping the "Figure" label:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{nonumber}{#1}
\begin{document}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{3cm}
\centering
\rule{2cm}{2cm}
\caption*{Test figure}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{3cm}
\centering
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty}
\rule{2cm}{2cm}
\caption{Test figure}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{3cm}
\centering
\captionsetup{labelformat=nonumber}
\rule{2cm}{2cm}
\caption{Test figure}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
Best Answer
This is caused by the fact that material inside an environment is placed inside a group, which confuses
wrapfig. Page 1 of the package documentation, says