Can I have a tcolorbox behave like wrapfig, without using the wrapfig package?

Question

I want to have the text go on the right side of my tcolorbox (like this), instead of it just being white space on the right side of my tcolorbox.

This code illustrates a tcolorbox with all white on the right side:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\chapter{First}
\section{Furst}
\subsection{Ok}

%Defining a newtcolorbox to be a standard box for all examples in the text:
\newtcolorbox[auto counter,number within=section]{phbox}[1][]{skin=bicolor,title=Figure~\thetcbcounter,#1,size=title,colback=white,colbacklower=black!10!white}


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\begin{phbox}[label={fig:label},halign=center,width=\linewidth/2]
\tcbincludepdf[scale=1,size=tight,opacityframe=0]{example-image.pdf}
\tcblower
Here is a bunch of text to explain a figure.
\end{phbox}
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\end{document}

I've tried using nobeforeafter and after=, in the tcolorbox options, but this does not produce the desired effect. My best guess is a solution using before and after, I've tried looking in the manual for clues, but I've come up empty.

Do I have to use the wrapfig package to achieve this? I would prefer a way to do it with tcolorbox.

Thanks!

Edit: To clarify: Before using a new package, I wanted to make sure that there wasn't an obvious easy way to do it using tcolorbox. The thing I'm asking for seems like it should be easy to do, maybe it was too obvious for the manual.

I'm already using a lot of tcolorbox in my document, and it's a lot more work having to put stuff in a wrapfigure if I could just put after=\somecommand in the tcolorbox options instead.

Also it's not obvious (to me) that combining wrapfig and tcolorbox would be unproblematic.

Answer 1

I know you asked for a non-wrapfig answer, though it is unclear why. They can work together. More importantly, I think, is that tcolorbox doesn't care much about how things outside the "colorboxes" look or behave, while wrapfig only cares about wrapping things around other things....

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lipsum, wrapfig}
% change "top" vertical spacing in wrapfig
\setlength{\intextsep}{0pt}
\begin{document}

\chapter{First}
\section{Furst}
\subsection{Ok}

%Defining a newtcolorbox to be a standard box for all examples in the text:
\newtcolorbox[auto counter,number
within=section]{phbox}[1][]{skin=bicolor,
  title=Figure~\thetcbcounter,#1,
  size=title,colback=white,colbacklower=black!10!white}


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\begin{wrapfigure}[14]{r}[0pt]{5cm}
\begin{phbox}[label={fig:label},width=\linewidth]
\tcbincludepdf[scale=1,size=tight,opacityframe=0]{example-image.pdf}
\tcblower
Here is a bunch of text to explain a figure.
\end{phbox}
\end{wrapfigure}
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Answer 2

Here is a solution without using the wrapfig package. The idea is to define a macro \newcommand{\MyWrapFigure} with two arguments; the first is the figure and the second is the wrapping text. The macro calculates the dimensions of the figure and indents the text horizontally and vertically, accordingly.

Caution should be taken, however, when using such macros with, for example, \hangindent. It will not work for all situations out of the box. Messing with \hangindent in LaTeX is dangerous: list environments use \parshape that overrides it. You can use \leftskip instead.

The macro used here is by no means complete and can be much improved up on, but, this is at least a first step in getting rid of wrapfig. I hope it helps.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lipsum,calc}

\newcommand{\MyWrapFigure}[2]{%
\newlength\picwidth
\newlength\picheight
\settowidth\picwidth{#1}
\settoheight\picheight{#1}
\newcount\countA
\countA=\picheight
\divide\countA by \baselineskip
\advance\countA by 2%
\newlength\heightT
\settoheight\heightT{\mbox{T}}%

% set the picture box
\noindent\raisebox{-\picheight+\heightT-\baselineskip}[0pt][0pt]{#1}%

\setlength{\hangindent}{\picwidth+1em}
\hangafter-\countA
\let\OrigPar=\par% save the original \par command
\edef\par{\hfil\break\indent}
% now place the text
\noindent
#2%
\relax\let\par=\OrigPar\par
}

\begin{document}

\chapter{First}
\section{Furst}
\subsection{Ok}

%Defining a newtcolorbox to be a standard box for all examples in the text:
\newtcolorbox[auto counter,number within=section]{phbox}[1][]{skin=bicolor,title=Figure~\thetcbcounter,#1,size=title,colback=white,colbacklower=black!10!white}

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\MyWrapFigure{%
\begin{phbox}[label={fig:label},halign=center,width=\linewidth/2]
\tcbincludepdf[scale=1,size=tight,opacityframe=0]{example-image.pdf}
\tcblower
Here is a bunch of text to explain a figure.
\end{phbox}
}
{%
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}

\end{document}