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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Aug  7 09:02:00 1989



>Maybe I'm an "ivory tower" intellectual out of touch with the world,
>but where, I ask, outside of PEOPLE magazine and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER,
>is the ability to wrap text around pictures of any consequence?

Well, I have a book on cryogenic technology in which there are
lots of photos and diagrams of stills for separating liquified gases.
They are often one inch wide and a half or a whole page high. 
They wrapped text around them. This book would look mighty odd
without that.

A look in this morning's New York Times shows no examples of
text from one article wrapped all the way around a picture; 
pictures are always butted up against the edge of the space
for a particular article. But of course text as a whole
snakes all over the place.

Doug McDonald