Create layout avoiding overlapping floating wrapfigures

Question

I'm writing companion notes for some beamer presentations. For each slide in a presentation, the document has a small picture of the slide, along with a text explaining the slide. For some slides, the text will be long, while for others, it may be just a sentence or no text at all.

I'd like the layout to be something like this:

Each slide is inside a wrapfigure environment. The problem I have is that, when there is not enough text to wrap around the slide, the slide and the next one will overlap. I tried putting every slide+text into a minipage, but this doesn't solve the problem.

For an example, see page 2 of this document. The code is in https://gist.github.com/830055

How can I avoid floating figures to overlap, so each slide appears in the right place?

Can you think of a better way to create a layout like this one?

Answer 1

I don't think there's a way to automate this, but you can manually specify a height for the minipages that have very little text in them:

\begin{minipage}[t][2.75in]{\textwidth}
    \begin{wrapfigure}{l}{.50\textwidth}
      \fbox{\includeslide[width=.45\textwidth]{evaluaciones}}
    \end{wrapfigure}

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc convallis
    erat eu nunc commodo feugiat. 
  \end{minipage}

Answer 2

The example is difficult to use without having the slides...

However, you might get away by using the optional argument of wrapfigure

\begin{wrapfigure}[10]{r}{5cm} 

The [10] is the number of shortened lines.