Is it possible to have a figure aligned to the side and have text wrap around it? i.e. I want to have a figure on the left, but instead of another figure on the right half, I want the main body of my text to flow around it. Is that possible?

Thanks.

Thanks for your comment.

I assume you are using the “subfigure” package as I proposed. In the mean-time this package became obsolete and was replaced by the “subfig” package.
I think with the new package, captions are below the figure/table by default, but you can tell Latex to print them below (and similarly above) as follows:

\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[position=below]{subfig}

The caption package is needed for the option to be recognized by Latex. Also, apparently you have to replace “subtable” with “subfloat”.
You might be interested in the complete documentation of the package.

Btw. you probably know, the table option you are using (htbp) does not make much sense (here/top/bottom/page). Usually, one would use something like ht to tell Latex to flush the floating environment content either on this page is there is enough space or on top of the next page.

Cheers,
Tom.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\subtable[subcatpion1]{
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c}
\hline\hline
…
\end{tabular}
}
\subtable[subcaption2]{
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c}
\hline\hline
…
\end{tabular}
}
\caption{global caption}\label{label of figure}
\end{table}

and I would like to have the subcaptions below the subtables, but latex
puts them above. Do you know how to do it?
Thanks,

Giuseppe

I am not sure about whether you can specifiy the width globally, but you can always use a relative size of course as you proposed:

\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{figure1.jpg}

Tom

it seems to me that the subfigure package is obsolete and is replaced by the subfig.

Best regards, Ondra

Check out my post on minipages, there is an example on how to place tables sid-by-side:
http://texblog.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/placing-figurestables-side-by-side-minipage/

Cheers,
Tom