%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 6-4-4 on page 304.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}

\newcommand\sample{Some text for our page
 that is reused over and over again. }
\sloppy

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{picins,graphicx}
\newcommand\FIG{\includegraphics
                    [width=10mm]{elephant}}
% \sample as previously defined
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\parpic(15mm,15mm)[f]{\FIG}\noindent
\sample\sample\par
Here we prove that the ``picture'' can
span more than a single paragraph.
\parpic(15mm,15mm)(2mm,14mm)[dr]{\FIG}%
\noindent\sample\sample\par
\picskip{2}
Without the explicit request in the source
this paragraph would have only one
shortened line, like the one surrounding
the previous  ``picture''.
\end{document}