rokicki@neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (05/10/91)
One subtlety that must be considered when asking about TeX flowing things around irregular shapes is that the baselineskip is allowed to stretch to fill out the page vertically---so when the paragraph is broken, it is not known what the baselineskip will be, and thus where each line hits the figure is unknown. A solution to this is just to fix the baselineskip, of course. Remember that paragraph breaking and page breaking are asynchronous with respect to each other . . . -tom