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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swt...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mpictures and ms: text before is gone
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:43:30 -0400

> Hello. I decided to take advantage of mpicture's wrapping text.  
> However, when I do so, the text before the picture and the wrapped  
> text disappears, leaving space. I tried prefixing with .fl to flush  
> everything, but to no avail. What's going on?

"I did something and it doesn't work.  Why?"
is far less useful than a detailed concrete example.
For example, narrow the broken file down to
ten lines or so of troff and a small EPS file
and then post that.

My first guess would be that your EPS file is 
non-conforming and is covering all the 
text that came before it, even outside the
bounding box.  But it's hard to say anything
without details.

Russ