but the figure seems to move either to the next section, or just disappear all together. I figure there must be a way to wrap the figure within the list and place it in the approximate position specified.
take into account the recommendation given in the documentation (containded in the wrapfig.sty file itself):
- You must not specify a wrapfigure in any type of list environment or
or immediately before or immediately after one. It is OK to follow
a list if there is a blank line ("\par") in between.
Perhaps you could use a tabular environment to simulate an itemize environment; something like the following: