Formatting – How to Wrap Text Around Figure Being Formatted into a New Column in TexStudio

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I'm just learning LaTeX, and I am having a problem with wrapping an image. When I use the try to use wrapfigure in TexStudio, I get a second column generated in my document, with the wrapped text being pushed into this column, and the image being inserted in-line. Text below the wrapped section is moved up the document to where I would expect the wrapped text to have started.

I've cut everything from my document except the minimum to generated a wrapped image (as per code below). I've also tried changing the paper size, documentclass and removing the specific margin sizes I'm using, all produce the same result.
Searches on the internet unfortunately have given me little insight to this problem.

I get the same result when I set the compiler to PdfLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. I've also tried to compile the document using LuX, with the same result, but I don't know enough yet about LaTeX to rule out the editor as the source of my the problem, based on what I've read about how the wrapfigure tag is supposed to be used.

The desired result I am looking for is to have the image displayed on the right of the page, with the text wrapping around it to the the left, in single column (i.e. typical book or report format)

Anything that can help me understand why I am getting this result instead would be much appreciated.

\documentclass[10pt,legalpaper]{book}
\usepackage[
left=1cm,
right=2cm,
top=3cm,
bottom=4cm,]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{lipsum}


\title{Sandbox}

\begin{document}
    
\chapter{First Chapter}
\subsection{1st Section}
\lipsum[1-1]
\subsection{Wrapped Image}
    \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{5cm}
        \lipsum[1-1]
        \includegraphics[width=3cm]{autumn-tree-1382832}
        \caption{A Tree}
        \label{fig:autumn-tree-1382832}
        %\lipsum[1-1]
    \end{wrapfigure}
\subsection{Last Subsection}    
\lipsum[1-8]    
\end{document}

image of the result I am getting:

Best Answer

You just want to move the text after the wrapfigure environment:

\documentclass[10pt,legalpaper]{book}
\usepackage[
left=1cm,
right=2cm,
top=3cm,
bottom=4cm,]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{lipsum}


\title{Sandbox}

\begin{document}
    
\chapter{First Chapter}
\subsection{1st Section}
\lipsum[1-1]
\subsection{Wrapped Image}
    \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{5cm}
        \includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image}
        \caption{A Tree}
        \label{fig:autumn-tree-1382832}
        %\lipsum[1-1]
    \end{wrapfigure}
        \lipsum[1-1]

\subsection{Last Subsection}    
\lipsum[1-8]    
\end{document}

Related Solutions

Graphics – Two Figures Side by Side with Text Wrapping

You have to carefully adjust the dimensions of your image and the number of lines the wrap figure will extend ( for example [10] in \begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5.5cm}).

An example:

\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}[10]{r}{5.5cm}
\rule{5.5cm}{7.1cm}
\caption{A wrapped figure}\label{wrap-fig:1}
\end{wrapfigure}
%------------------------------------------
This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like. This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. You may
embed tabular environment inside wraptable environment and customize as you like. This is where the table goes with text wrapping around it. 
%
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{minipage}{6cm}
\centering
\rule{\textwidth}{3cm}
\caption{my figure}\label{fig:2}
\end{minipage}%
\end{figure}%

\lipsum[2-3]

Figure~\ref{wrap-fig:1} is a wrapped figure.
%------------------------------------------
\end{document}

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Graphics – How to Scale Figures to Width and Wrap Text in ConTeXt for Pandoc Documents

Solution

With version: 2012.05.30 11:26 of ConTeXt, \setupexternalfigures[wfactor=fit] has no effect. Hence, the following solution which also keeps in-line figures intact.

This is all really nice, because LaTeX2e has not be found capable (yet) of pulling off a similar feat. In contrast to ConTeXt, float clearing is not automatic in LaTeX2e; instead, one needs to fuddle around with distance measurements.

\setuppapersize [A4][A4]
\setuplayout    [width=middle,  backspace=1.5in, cutspace=1.5in,
                 height=middle, topspace=0.75in, bottomspace=0.75in]

\setuppagenumbering[location={footer,center}]

\setuptolerance[horizontal, tolerant, stretch]

% Keep old definitions
\let\oldplacefigure\placefigure
\let\oldexternalfigure\externalfigure

% For full text-width figures
\def\placefigure[#1]#2#3{%
  \def\externalfigure[##1]{\oldexternalfigure[##1][method=jpg, wfactor=fit]}%
  \oldplacefigure[#1]{#2}{#3}%
  \let\externalfigure\oldexternalfigure% Reset for in-line figures
  }

% For figures with wrapped text
\definedescription[description][
  headstyle=bold,
  style=normal,
  location=hanging,
  width=4cm
  ]

\def\startdescription#1{%
  \def\externalfigure[##1]{\oldexternalfigure[##1][method=jpg, width=4cm]}%
  \oldplacefigure[none,left,high]{}{#1}%
  \let\externalfigure\oldexternalfigure% Reset for in-line figures
  }
\def\stopdescription{\endgraf}

\starttext
  \placefigure[here,nonumber]{Little kitten}{\externalfigure[http://placekitten.com/g/480/300]}

  \startdescription{{\externalfigure[http://placekitten.com/g/640/400]}}
    \input bryson
  \stopdescription
\stoptext

output

Caveat

The cats have a caveat though; When the figure with the description occurs near the end of a page, its wrapped text will fall off the page like in the following example. I distilled a minimum working example out of it and linked it as a follow-up question.

caveat

Newer ConTeXt versions

Eventually, I found how to install ConTeXt Standalone under Debian. I can confirm that \setupexternalfigures[wfactor=fit] is now functional in ConTeXt version: 2013.09.09 19:45. This can significantly reduce the code when, like in the example above, no in-line images are used. However, when in a more general case in-line images are present, [wfactor=fit] cannot be used because it acts also upon these. [wfactor=fit] acting upon in-line images could be considered a ConTeXt bug. Therefore, above solution which also works with older ConTeXt versions, remains the more general solution.