General ⇒ Rotating tables issue...

[BNPadgett]

Using the "rotating" package I have been able to successfully rotate my captions and tables using the following code...

\begin{table}
\center
\rotcaption{Averaged characteristic values of potential and current density for synthesized ingots.}
\label{electrochemistry}
\begin{sideways}
\begin{tabular}{cccccccc}
.......
\end{tabular}
\end{sideways}

\end{table}

The problem is that the table appears cut in half at the bottom of the pdf page, while the caption is centered...

How do I fix this?

[gmedina]

Can you please be more specific? A minimal working example would be very helpful to reproduce your problem and try to help you. With the information you gave (after changing \center for \centering), I could not reproduce your problem; in fact, the following code works OK for me:

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\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{rotating} 

\begin{document} 

\begin{table}
  \centering 
  \rotcaption{This is just a test table.} 
  \label{tab:testtable}
  \begin{sideways} 
  \begin{tabular}[b]{cccccccc}
    \hline
    text & text & text & text & text & text & text & text\\
    \hline
  \end{tabular} 
  \end{sideways}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Also, I think this post belongs to LaTeX->General

[BNPadgett]

I copied your code into a new document and I got a similar issue... which leads me to believe there is something wrong with the formatting of the table. I used exceltolatex on a pc... every other table has worked, except the rotated tables. Below is the coding I used.

Maybe I need to update my Latex? I am not sure, I am a novice user.

Thanks for the help.

[gmedina]

which leads me to believe there is something wrong with the formatting of the table

The problem was the \rotcaption command. I suggest you to rotate simulataneously the table and the caption, using the sidewaystable environment, as the following example shows:

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\begin{sidewaystable}
  \centering
  \caption{Averaged energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy results   gathered for the synthesized intermetallic phases.}
  \label{EDS}
  \begin{tabular}{rcccccccc}
      ...contents of the table...
   \end{tabular}  
\end{sidewaystable}

By the way, I see that you are loading the epsfig package; that package is obsolete and it's better not to use it.

Maybe I need to update my Latex?

What LaTeX distribution are you using?

[BNPadgett]

It worked! Thanks so much!