soul's \ul{} breaks wrapfigure and textflow?

Question

Please, I have a nice picture without that \ul{...}, but i need that.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{soul}

\begin{document}

\begin{wrapfigure}[3]{l}{30mm}
\Huge 1
\end{wrapfigure}

\ul{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Suspendisse nec dolor eget tortor iaculis molestie et ac diam.
Aliquam feugiat tempus orci et suscipit.
Morbi varius dignissim arcu, vitae facilisis metus imperdiet id.
Morbi non mi at neque mollis elementum.
Etiam mauris velit, accumsan in fringilla nec, auctor in eros.
Etiam porta fermentum pretium. 

\end{document}

With that \ul{...} paragraph is being stretched to full width and figure goes away to the left. What is wrong?

Thanks!

ps. Actually there are graphics in wrapfigures and i really need some words to be underlined. Yes, ulem's \emph does the same as \ul. Well, yes, \underline does right thing here, but i am unhappy with \underline.

Update: With this addition:

\usepackage{color}
...
% instead of just \Huge 1:
\fcolorbox[gray]{0.59}{1}{\parbox{30mm}{\Huge 1}}

and after making "just too long word" pdflatex produces this picture: hyphenation does work!

So, paragraph is nicely stretched to \textwidth;

I guess \ul breaks hyphenation. Does adding explicit hyphenation work? \ul{longword\-with\-explicit\-hyphens} — Seamus, Mar 10 '11 at 18:13
Huh. It's not that at all. This is weird. If you make the beginning of the text L\ul{orem ipsum...} then it works fine... — Seamus, Mar 10 '11 at 18:22

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '11 at 18:39

For wrapfig to work properly it needs to see a paragraph. You can force a paragraph by using \leavevmode.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{soul}

\begin{document}
\begin{wrapfigure}[3]{l}{30mm}
\Huge 1
\end{wrapfigure}
\leavevmode\ul{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Suspendisse nec dolor eget tortor iaculis molestie et ac diam.
Aliquam feugiat tempus orci et suscipit.
Morbi varius dignissim arcu, vitae facilisis metus imperdiet id.
Morbi non mi at neque mollis elementum.
Etiam mauris velit, accumsan in fringilla nec, auctor in eros.
Etiam porta fermentum pretium. 

\end{document}

You could also use a noindent or quitvmode or use a rule as per Seamus post.

So \ul confuses wrapfig into thinking there's no paragraph there? — Seamus, Mar 10 '11 at 18:49
@Seamus \ul makes sure it does not start a new one, otherwise it would break things in other places. — yannisl, Mar 10 '11 at 19:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '11 at 18:24

I have no idea why this works, or what's going on, but this does make things work:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{soul}

\begin{document}
\begin{wrapfigure}[3]{l}{30mm}
\Huge 1
\end{wrapfigure}
\rule{0pt}{0pt}\ul{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet}, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Suspendisse nec dolor eget tortor iaculis molestie et ac diam.
Aliquam feugiat tempus orci et suscipit.
Morbi varius dignissim arcu, vitae facilisis metus imperdiet id.
Morbi non mi at neque mollis elementum.
Etiam mauris velit, accumsan in fringilla nec, auctor in eros.
Etiam porta fermentum pretium. 

\end{document}

All I've done is put an invisible rule before your \ul

Hha-ha!! It looks like it does! I feel like i need to check it more (and would b great to understand what's going on) -- but THANK YOU. I need to check everything, i'll be back .) — brownian, Mar 10 '11 at 18:31

soul's \ul{} breaks wrapfigure and textflow?

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