Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Two sideways tables on the same page?

[silje]

I am quite new in this game.. Is it possible to get two sidewaystables into the same page? I am writing my master thesis and have two quite "long and narrow" tables which I would like to place below each other to make the lay-out look better.

[PGScooter]

Hi silje,

There is an excellent article located here (go to "PDF version of paper")
http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/mori/

Go to 3.2 Rotating Tables

I am sure that what you want to do can be done. There are probably several solutions, a few of which are in that article.

good luck!

[silje]

Thank you very much! It says in the article that sidewaystable fills a whole page, but I will try to use another command.


Silje

[jazzgossen]

Did you find a way to do this?

[localghost]

Did you find a way to do this?

Follow the advice of PGScooter. Start a first approach on your own. In case of upcoming questions, feel free to ask.


Best regards
Thorsten

[jazzgossen]

I've tried a couple of different approaches.

Using sidewaystable, as stated above, requires a full page for each table.

I tried putting two sidewaystables in a minipage each, but then I get the error message "not in outer par mode".

If I just have a sideways environment inside the table environment (as opposed to sidewaystable), I get "Missing \endgroup inserted" after the caption.

I tried the lscape package and the landscape environment. If I put the tables inside a landscape environment, I do get two sideways tables on one page, but they are not floating. If I put the landscape environment inside the table environment, the tables aren't sideways anymore.

The only way of having floating sideways tables I could find in the article in PGScooter's post is the sidewaystable environment, but then I can only have one table on a page.

[localghost]

[...] Using sidewaystable, as stated above, requires a full page for each table. [...]

Nobody claims that there is no room for two tables inside this environment.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{rotating}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  \begin{sidewaystable}
    \caption{Table One}\label{tab:one}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{*{4}{c}} \toprule
      Table Head & Table Head & Table Head & Table Head \\ \midrule
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}

   \vspace{2\baselineskip}
   \caption{Table Two}\label{tab:two}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{*{4}{c}} \toprule
      Table Head & Table Head & Table Head & Table Head \\ \midrule
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\
      Some Values & Some Values & Some Values & Some Values \\ \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \end{sidewaystable}
\end{document}

If you want the tables to be subtables with their own caption and sub-numbering and a major caption for the whole environment, try the subfig package or better the subcaption package that comes with caption.

[jazzgossen]

Aha! That's it, thanks a lot!

[leandrocc]

Is it just me or sidewaystable does not respect right/left margins?
The tables are starting straight at the end of the paper, not where the margin should start.

Any ideas?

[lena_of]

Thank you! why didn't i think of just putting several tables inside the sideways environment.

If width of table is a problem just use:\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{% } command:

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\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}

table...

\end{tabular}
}

Works well within the \sidewaystable environment also