General ⇒ Problem with minipage + wrapfig

[nanomir]

Hi all,

I am trying to make a sort of a "template" for a captioned image on right, and a little bit of text on the left - I use minipage and wrapfig for this. In this case, the text is not much, however, Latex uses by default the text as reference for positioning - which overlaps images; here is the problem illustrated:



And here is the code used:

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\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage{wrapfig} 
\usepackage{graphicx} 
\usepackage{color} 

\begin{document}

\section[Image 1]{Image 1}

\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.3\textwidth}
\vspace{-20pt}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.4189in,height=1.2709in]{picture.jpg}
\vspace{-20pt}
\caption{\textit{Picture one. }}
\label{fig:pic1}
\vspace{-10pt}
\end{wrapfigure}

\textsf{Some text:}  Some text.. (\textcolor{red}{some text})

\end{minipage} \newline
\vfill



\section[Image 2]{Image 2}

\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.3\textwidth}
\vspace{-20pt}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1.4189in,height=1.2709in]{picture.jpg}
\vspace{-20pt}
\caption{\textit{Picture two. }}
\label{fig:pic1}
\vspace{-10pt}
\end{wrapfigure}

\textsf{Some text:}  Some text.. (\textcolor{red}{some text})

\end{minipage}
\vfill

\end{document}

When \vfill is before \end{minipage}, it's as if it has no effect, and thus I still get the situation on the figure left (overlap). If \vfill is sfter \end{minipage}, I get too much space - I want the section heading to be right below the image caption (or the text end, if it was larger - whichever comes first).

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks....

[phi]

You could use a KOMA-Script class or the sidecap package, both have built-in facilities for sideways captions.