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I would like to have a framed box that contains some (justified) text and, on the side, a figure with its label and caption, something like this:

Exemple of what I want

I think/I read on other threads that some starting points may be the "wrapfigure" package, parbox(es) and/or minipages, but I cannot find an example where these features are used the way I want, and I cannot understand it by myself (tried the whole morning).

Anyone has any idea?

Thanks in advance, Jacorem

EDIT: what I tried so far:

  • wrap text around a figure inside a floating box In this case, the float is the whole box and the caption/label is given to it + the image is at the left of the text. I would like to give the caption to only the image and place it under the image itself. I think that one can adapt a little bit the code of this example, but
    1. since I do not want the whole box to be treated as a figure (as I said, I want the caption to be put under the figure, not somewhere else), I changed the figure environment to a minipage one, and I put the figure environment inside the sbox0 ==> compilation error
    2. cannot really understand how to use the \hangafter/\hangindent command to switch left and right
    3. I'm not sure that simple moving the caption in the \sbox0 may work
  • Floating "Tip" box using wrapfigure No figure
  • Making a boxed minipage environment No figure
  • tried mixing this and several other possibilities (including creating a single cell table) starting with code-less suggestions found online, resulting in error or very bad layout (like text overlapping itself and/or the reduced textwith perduring in the whole section)
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    Can you post what you've tried so far? Commented 2 days ago
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    This question is similar to: wrap text around a figure inside a floating box. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it clear how it’s different and/or how the answers on that question are not helpful for your problem. Commented yesterday
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    check the tcolorbox documentation, chapter 6 "Side by Side" Commented yesterday
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    @UlrikeFischer your suggestion really do it! Can you make it an answer, so that I can aprove it? Commented yesterday
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    you can self-answer if you found something useful there. Commented yesterday

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This should be a floating object. The only problem is to set up a convenient way of coding it.

Here's a possibility: framedfigure has a standard positioning optional argument (default [!htp]) and first argument consisting of key-value pairs:

  • ratio for setting the amount of the available width for the width of the text;
  • sep for the inner margins between the object and the frame (default \fboxsep);
  • gutter for the separation between the two parts (default \columnsep);
  • align for the reciprocal alignment, can be c (default), t or b;
  • file for the name of the graphic file
  • options for additional options to \includegraphics, perhaps overriding the default width=\linewidth;
  • shortcaption for the possible table of contents short caption;
  • caption for the caption text.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{lipsum}% filler text

\ExplSyntaxOn

\NewDocumentEnvironment{framedfigure}{O{!htp} m +b}
 {% #1 = pos options, #2 = data, #3 = text
  \jacopo_framefigure:nnn {#1} {#2} {#3}
 }
 {}

\keys_define:nn { jacopo/framefigure }
 {
  ratio .fp_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_ratio_fp,
  ratio .initial:n = 0.5,
  sep .dim_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_sep_dim,
  sep .initial:n = \fboxsep,
  gutter .dim_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_gutter_dim,
  gutter .initial:n = \columnsep,
  align .tl_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_align_tl,
  align .initial:n = c,
  file .tl_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_file_tl,
  options .tl_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_options_tl,
  shortcaption .tl_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_shortcaption_tl,
  caption .tl_set:N = \l__jacopo_framefigure_caption_tl,
 }

\dim_new:N \l__jacopo_framefigure_wd_dim

\cs_new_protected:Nn \jacopo_framefigure:nnn
 {
  \keys_set:nn { jacopo/framefigure } {#2}
  \dim_set:Nn \fboxsep { \l__jacopo_framefigure_sep_dim }
  \dim_set:Nn \l__jacopo_framefigure_wd_dim
   {
    \columnwidth - 2\fboxrule - 2\fboxsep - \l__jacopo_framefigure_gutter_dim
   }
  \begin{figure}[#1]
  \framebox[\columnwidth][s]
   {
    \begin{minipage}
     [\l__jacopo_framefigure_align_tl] % alignment
     {\fp_eval:n {\l__jacopo_framefigure_ratio_fp}\l__jacopo_framefigure_wd_dim} % width
    \vspace{0pt}
    #3 % the text
    \par\vspace{0pt}
    \end{minipage}
    \hfill % the gutter
    \begin{minipage}
     [\l__jacopo_framefigure_align_tl] % alignment
     {\fp_eval:n {1-\l__jacopo_framefigure_ratio_fp}\l__jacopo_framefigure_wd_dim} % width
    \centering
    \vspace{0pt}
    % the image
    \use:e
     {
      \exp_not:N \includegraphics[width=\linewidth,\l__jacopo_framefigure_options_tl]
      {\l__jacopo_framefigure_file_tl}
     }
    % the caption
    \tl_if_blank:VTF \l__jacopo_framefigure_shortcaption_tl
     {
      \caption{\l__jacopo_framefigure_caption_tl}
     }
     {
      \caption[\l__jacopo_framefigure_shortcaption_tl]{\l__jacopo_framefigure_caption_tl}
     }
    \par\vspace{0pt}
    \end{minipage}
  }% end of \framebox
  \end{figure}
}{}

\ExplSyntaxOff

\begin{document}

\begin{framedfigure}{
  ratio=0.5,
  file=example-image,
  caption={This is a caption},
}
\lipsum[1][1-8]
\end{framedfigure}

\begin{framedfigure}{
  ratio=0.5,
  gutter=0.5em,
  sep=1em,
  options={width=0.8\linewidth},
  file=example-image,
  caption={This is a caption},
}
\lipsum[1][1-8]
\end{framedfigure}

\begin{framedfigure}[!b]{
  sep=1em,
  ratio=0.6,
  align=t,
  file=example-image,
  caption={This is a caption},
}
\lipsum[1][1-8]
\end{framedfigure}

\end{document}

Getting a pleasant result requires experiments with the various parameters.

output

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One option is to use a tabular:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|p{7cm}p{7cm}|}
\hline
\lipsum[1] & {\vskip2mm\centering\includegraphics[width=6.5cm,valign=t]{example-image}\captionof{figure}{this is a representation of an atom}}\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Result:

text and image side by side

The tabular has two p (paragraph) columns which allow multiple lines. You do need to set the width manually. The image is top-aligned using valign=t from the adjustbox package and slightly lowered using \vskip before the image. The caption is added using \captionof from the package capt-of. The image and caption are centered in the second column of the tabular using \centering in a {} group.

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@UlrikeFischer comment to the original question solved my problem:

the tcolorbox package allow one to create top/down or side-by-side framed text and floats. The visual options allow one also to change the shape and color of the frame.

One of the limit of this solution (at least, I think that this is not possible) is that one cannot really create "wrapping" figures/frames, where text start on the whole line, then appear only to the side and finally on the whole line again.

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    @Jacopo-Redemondina, please share the code for your solution Commented yesterday
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It is not so complicated to adapt the answer to "wrap text around a figure inside a floating box" move the caption below the image:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mwe}
\newlength{\imagewidth}
\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\fbox{\begin{minipage}{\dimexpr \textwidth-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule}
\settowidth{\imagewidth}{\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{example-image}}% get
% width
\sbox0{\parbox[b]{\imagewidth}{%
    \includegraphics[scale=0.25]{example-image}
    \caption{Floating Box}\label{fig:example}
  }}
\hangafter \numexpr -\ht0/\baselineskip -1\relax% adds one blank lines at bottom
\hangindent \dimexpr \wd0 + 1em\relax% adds 1em margin on right
\vbox{\raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt]{\box0}}\vspace{-1ex}% overlap image
\lipsum[1]
\end{minipage}}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

box with figure and wrapping text

And if you don't want it to flow, you either can use package float and \begin{figure}[H]…\end{figure} or remove the figure environment and use \captionof{figure}{…} (needs either a package like caption or tocbasic or a class like scrartcl) instead of \caption:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tocbasic}% or caption or capt-of
\usepackage{mwe}
\newlength{\imagewidth}
\begin{document}

\noindent\fbox{\begin{minipage}{\dimexpr \textwidth-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule}
\settowidth{\imagewidth}{\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{example-image}}% get
% width
\sbox0{\parbox[b]{\imagewidth}{%
    \includegraphics[scale=0.25]{example-image}
    \captionof{figure}{Floating Box}\label{fig:example}
  }}
\hangafter \numexpr -\ht0/\baselineskip -1\relax% adds one blank lines at bottom
\hangindent \dimexpr \wd0 + 1em\relax% adds 1em margin on right
\vbox{\raisebox{-\height}[0pt][0pt]{\box0}}\vspace{-1ex}% overlap image
\lipsum[1]
\end{minipage}}

\end{document}

box with figure and floating text

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