Aligned boxes without exceeding textwidth

Question

I have this:

\newcommand{\bpic}[2]{
    \makebox[\textwidth][l]{
        \fbox{\makebox[.1\textwidth][r]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{#1}\hspace*{5pt}}}\fbox{\parbox{.9\textwidth}{#2}\newline}%
    }
}

\bpic{resilience.png}{Resilience, in that broken nodes do not compromise the network entirely;}
\bpic{spontaneity.png}{Spontaneity, a feature empowered by the network's capacity to form and heal itself;}
\bpic{decentralization.png}{Decentralization, in the sense that having devices connect directly the need for Internet providers is alleviated;}
\bpic{scale.png}{Scale, as a consequence of the fact that such networks benefit from node density to form a greater number of alternative paths;}
\bpic{throughput.png}{Throughput, an attribute achieved by enabling multiple paths simultaneously to transmit data to a given destination;}
\bpic{balancing.png}{Load balancing, with several alternatives being used to leverage traffic on the network;}
\bpic{costs.png}{Reduced costs of infrastructure, due to the nodes connecting directly, thereby alleviating the need for central authorities.}

That is resulting in this:

All fboxs are there only for the sake of understanding the layout. There a few things wrong with what I want:

• The boxes are exceeding the text width in comparison with the rest of the text. Notice that at the right.

• I wanted the picture and text boxes to be the same height and with the text centered vertically.

• If the text needs more vertically space than what is used by the image, the image below should adjust by being lower––just as with a bullet list.

How can I do this?

Edit

I played around with @marmot's response and got to this, which uses spacing closer to what I need:

To do that I added makebox[40pt][c] to the images:

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{m{40pt}X}
    \makebox[40pt][c]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{resilience.png}} & Resilience, in that broken nodes do not compromise the network entirely;\\
    \makebox[40pt][c]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{spontaneity.png}} & Spontaneity, a feature empowered by the network's capacity to form and heal itself;\\
    \makebox[40pt][c]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{decentralization.png}} & Decentralization, in the sense that having devices connect directly the need for Internet providers is alleviated;\\
    \makebox[40pt][c]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{scale.png}} & Scale, as a consequence of the fact that such networks benefit from node density to form a greater number of alternative paths;\\
    \makebox[40pt][c]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{throughput.png}} & Throughput, an attribute achieved by enabling multiple paths simultaneously to transmit data to a given destination;\\
    \makebox[40pt][c]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{balancing.png}} & Load balancing, with several alternatives being used to leverage traffic on the network;\\
    \makebox[40pt][c]{\includegraphics[width=20pt]{costs.png}} & Reduced costs of infrastructure, due to the nodes connecting directly, thereby alleviating the need for central authorities.
\end{tabularx}

In this example the first line is centered with the image, but multiple lines expand the text below without centering the image vertically. @Andrew's response is better with multiple lines (that's the result I'm looking for), but single lines are aligned to the top. I haven't played with the space on this one:

Answer 1

Your desired output looks like a table to me. (If you want to run over page breaks with it, you may want to use longtable instead of tabularx.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,graphicx,lipsum}
% \raisebox{-.5\height}{...} from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/19083/121799
\newcommand{\bpic}[1]{\raisebox{-.5\height}{\includegraphics[width=16pt]{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{m{20pt}X}
\bpic{example-image-a} & Resilience, in that broken nodes do not compromise the
network entirely\\
\bpic{example-image-b} & Spontaneity, a feature empowered by the network's capacity to form and heal itself;\\
\end{tabularx}

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

Of course, I do not have your figures.

EDIT: I'm confused about your comment. So maybe an even simpler thing will do?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,graphicx}
\newcommand{\bpic}[1]{\includegraphics[width=16pt]{#1}}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\begin{itemize}
\item[\bpic{example-image-a}]  Resilience, in that broken nodes do not compromise the
network entirely
\item[\bpic{example-image-b}]  Spontaneity, a feature empowered by the network's capacity to form and heal itself;
\end{itemize}

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

Answer 2

As marmot suggests, I'd wrap this in a table. In fact, to ensure consistent formatting I would wrap everything into a nice little macro so that you can write your table as

  \ImageTable{
    {example-image-a}{Resilience, in that broken nodes ...},
    {example-image-b}{Spontaneity, a feature empowered...},
    {example-image-c}{Decentralization, in the sense...},
    {example-image-a}{Scale, as a consequence of the fact...,
    {example-image-b}{Throughput, an attribute achieved...},
    {example-image-c}{Load balancing, with several alternatives...},
    {example-image}{Reduced costs of infrastructure, due...}
  }

to produce:

So, \ImageTable accepts a comma separated list of pairs that give the image and the corresponding text.

Normally. I would do this using \docsvlist from the etoolbox package but I found it tricky to pass two arguments (the image and the text) through to the \do command (\newcomand\do[2]{...} didn't work). Instead I have used the slightly fancier and scarier looking LaTeX3 package together with the etoolbox package to align the images (this adds a few extra options to the \includegraphics command such as the align=? used below). If you want to tweak the image alignment have a look at the other options available in the package documentation.

Here is the full code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{expl3}
\usepackage{graphbox}
\usepackage{mwe}% for images

\ExplSyntaxOn
\clist_new:N \l_image_table_list
\cs_new_protected:Npn \image_table_row #1 #2 {
    \includegraphics[width=20pt, align=t]{#1} & #2\\
}
\cs_new:Npn \ImageTable #1 {%
  \noindent
  \clist_set:Nn \l_image_table_list {#1}
  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{cX}
    \clist_map_inline:Nn \l_image_table_list { \image_table_row ##1}
  \end{tabularx}
}
\ExplSyntaxOff

\begin{document}

  \ImageTable{
    {example-image-a}{Resilience, in that broken nodes do not compromise the network entirely;},
    {example-image-b}{Spontaneity, a feature empowered by the network's capacity to form and heal itself;},
    {example-image-c}{Decentralization, in the sense that having devices connect directly the need for Internet providers is alleviated;},
    {example-image-a}{Scale, as a consequence of the fact that such networks benefit from node density to form a greater number of alternative paths;},
    {example-image-b}{Throughput, an attribute achieved by enabling multiple paths simultaneously to transmit data to a given destination;},
    {example-image-c}{Load balancing, with several alternatives being used to leverage traffic on the network;},
    {example-image}{Reduced costs of infrastructure, due to the nodes connecting directly, thereby alleviating the need for central authorities.}
  }

\end{document}