[Groff] Wrapping Text Arond Figures and Captions

[Frank Jahnke]

I would like to revisit a topic that has come up from time to time over
the years but really has not been solved.  That is wrapping text around
figures and their captions.  I write and submit a lot of proposals that
unfortunately have severe page limits.  Using PSPIC for the figure and
caption in a float to keep them together wastes a lot of space that I
simply cannot afford to do.

The most recent discussion on this topic was in March 2009, and on the
27th Werner Lemberg posted a macro that gets much of the way there.
Unfortunately, his macro has a bug where the figure is displaced to the
right of where it should be.  It also includes no means to accommodate a
figure caption.  (It is easy to add an option for the figure width.)
Sadly I'm not able to do groff coding, or I would have a go at it
myself.

Would it be possible to solve this problem?  I've used [t|g]roff for 30
years now, and it has done everything I need -- except for this.
Unfortunately since our National Institutes of Health changed their
proposal format and length (many are but six pages, and these can be
million dollar proposals!) this is a killer.  And no, the www macros are
not good enough.

Frank