fine tuning of a wrapfigure

Question

when no other solution seems available, fine tuning by hand may be helpful. Lately, I was trying to raise the content of a wrapfigure becasue it was eating the bottom margin. I had something like:

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{6cm}\centering
\raisebox{20pt}{
\begin{minipage}[t]{5.8cm}
figure content
\caption
\end{minipage}}
\end{wrapfigure}

but it does not work. Would you have a solution? We have to make sure that the wrapfigure environment does not know that something is moved inside. (It makes me think of the \mathclap command from the mathtools package).

Thanks

Answer 1

Instead of a \raisebox you can shift the content up by adding some negative vertical space before the figure content, and then compensate for that afterwards. For example compare

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\begin{document}

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{6cm}\centering
\vspace{-12pt}
\fbox{figure content}
\vspace{12pt}
\caption{Lolcats}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[3]

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{6cm}\centering
\fbox{figure content}
\caption{Lolcats}
\end{wrapfigure}
\lipsum[3]

\end{document}