Footnotes do not respect Wrapfig

Question

I am using the wrapfig package but footnotes are not properly wrapping:

Here is the source

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx, wrapfig}
\graphicspath{ {./images/} }

\title{Learning to Deconflict Constraints}
\author{Ethan Brooks}
\begin{document}
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\hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\
\hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\
\hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\
\hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill \\ \hfill
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{50pt} %this figure will be at the right
    \centering
    \includegraphics[height=50pt]{6b2}
    \includegraphics[height=35pt]{6r3}
\end{wrapfigure}

\footnote{That is, move the top block from column from column 3 to column1, then the top block from column 2 to column 1, etc.
}.

\end{document}

I'll add that this is related to wrapfig Positioning (Footer is overlapping figure) but the answer to that post recommends packages that have not been updated in 30 years and are not as fully featured as wrapfig.

it would be very hard to get that to work automatically, by hand you can use \\ to force a linebreak after the comma in the footnote. — David Carlisle, Sep 12 '19 at 19:40
also this example has a wrapfig with no following paragraph that can wrap around the figure and a footnote with no preceding text, either of these puts the document in some slightly strange edge case that's not likely to produce reasonable output. Perhaps that is just a feature of the small example, and does not represent your real document? — David Carlisle, Sep 12 '19 at 19:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '19 at 20:49

A solution can be found with the plain TeX macro package insbox. It defines commands \InsertBoxL and \InsertBoxR, with two mandatory arguments: the number of lines in the following paragraph which remain unshortened and the inserted box, and an optional argument: the number of supplementary shortened lines, in case TeX didn't do a correct computation for the necessary shorter lines.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum, xcolor, eqparbox}
\input{insbox.tex}
\graphicspath{ {./images/} }

\title{Learning to Deconflict Constraints}
\author{Ethan Brooks}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-2]

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\bgroup\InsertBoxR{-1}{%
\eqparbox{W}{%
 \includegraphics[height=50pt]{pepe-le-pew2}\\
 \includegraphics[height=50pt]{wolf}}%
 }[3]

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\egroup

\lipsum[3-8]

\end{document}

I'm not sure this is an answer, you could do the same with wrapfig if you (as here) supplied text to wrap around the figure. I think the OP (for some reason) wants the figure to protrude into the footnote area and for the footnote text to be set to shorter lines to accommodate that. — David Carlisle, Sep 13 '19 at 08:14
@DavidCarlisle: Protruding would be no problem (replacing \eqparbox with \parbox would do the trick), but I had not understood the footnote text wrapping. — Bernard, Sep 13 '19 at 08:24

Footnotes do not respect Wrapfig

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