General ⇒ Forcing table / image within template

[ijc]

Hi again,

I'm having a bit of difficulty forcing a large table onto a particular page in my thesis.

The template we have to use (http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/course ... cs4rep.cls) starts new chapters on a new page. One of my appendices has a big table on it, which does fit on a single A4 page, but when I try to include it in my appendix it always puts it on the next page. I thought it might be because it was too big with the chapter title on the same page as well, but even if I scale it very small, it still goes on the other page.

There is no text in the appendix/chapter, just this table.

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\chapter{FFT Core Options}
\label{apd:fftoptions}

\begin{sidewaystable}[!h]
\caption{...} % title name of the table
\centering % centering table
\scalebox{...}{
\begin{tabular}{|l| p{6.5cm}| p{2.5cm}| p{6.5cm}|} % creating 10 columns
...

I tried forcing it with ! but that doesn't make a difference - perhaps because there is no text anyway...

I hope you can help,

Thanks in advance
IJC

[localghost]

Try a \clearpage (or \cleardoublepage) command right after the table environment to force its output.


Best regards
Thorsten

[ijc]

If I put a \cleardoublepage at the top of the appendix, is just leaves a blank page before putting the table it, but the table is not under the appendix heading.

Nothing happens if I put the command anywhere else (in the main doc, below of above the apndx. or below the table in the apndx)


Thanks for your help

IJC

[gmedina]

Try using the hvfloat and float packages instead. A simple example:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{float}
\floatplacement{table}{H}
\usepackage{hvfloat}

\begin{document} 

%saving the table in a box to be passed as argument to \hvfloat
\newbox{\mytable}
\savebox{\mytable}{%
  \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
    a & b \\
    c & d \\
    e & f \\
    g & h \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}}

\chapter{Appendix 1}
\hvFloat[capPos=r,objectAngle=-90,capAngle=-90,]%
  {table}%
  {\usebox{\mytable}}%
  {Test table 2}%
  {tab:test2}

\end{document}

[ijc]

./MainReport.tex:10:File `hvfloat.sty' not found. ^^M

I have my appendix in a seperate file...ffttiming.tex

main.text

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\documentclass[parskip]{cs4rep}

\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{rotating}

\usepackage{float}
\floatplacement{table}{H}
\usepackage{hvfloat}

\usepackage{caption3} % load caption package kernel first
\DeclareCaptionOption{parskip}[]{} % disable "parskip" caption option
\usepackage[small]{caption}
...
\appendix
\include{fftoptions}
\include{ffttiming}
...

ffttiming.tex

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\chapter{FFT Core Options}
\label{apd:fftoptions}
\hvFloat[capPos=r,objectAngle=-90,capAngle=-90,]%
  {table}%
  {\usebox{\mytable}}%
  {Test table 2}%
  {tab:test2}

%saving the table in a box to be passed as argument to \hvfloat
\newbox{\mytable}
\savebox{\mytable}{%

\begin{sidewaystable}[!h]
...

Thanks very much for your help

IJC

[gmedina]

You are missing the hvfloat package. You can get it from CTAN using the link I already provided. Besides that, I do not understand your last post.

[ijc]

Thanks gmedina.

I posted the last bits of my code so you could see how I have it set up, in case there is something in there causing problems.

I got the hvfloat.sty file and put it in the same directory as my report.

./fftoptions.tex:9:Undefined control sequence. {tab:test2}
./fftoptions.tex:9:Missing number, treated as zero. {tab:test2}
./fftoptions.tex:53:Not in outer par mode. }
./fftoptions.tex:53:Undefined control sequence. }
./fftoptions.tex:53:Missing number, treated as zero. }

I tried taking the

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  {Test table 2}%
  {tab:test2}

that out, but it still came up with the other errors.

All the {} appear to be matched up.

[gmedina]

Ah. From what I can see you are still using the sidewaystable environment and I think that's unnecessary if you are going to use the hvfloat package. Please, if possible, post the complete relavant parts of the code you are using for your table. Better yet, if you can post the complete table code, I could try to help you more efficiently.

[ijc]

Thanks for sticking with this gmedina.

The appendix tex file is attached with the table code in it. I also attached the pdf file so you can see what it's outputting and why it isn't right.

I had to battle with LaTeX to get the table landscape, it's too big to do portrait so if hvfloat can make it go landscape all is well.

[gmedina]

I am attaching the .tex file with some corrections. You will have to add (if you haven't done it already) this lines in your document's preamble:

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\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\floatplacement{table}{H}
\usepackage{hvfloat}

Remarks: 1) Your table is too big so I scaled it using the \scalebox command provided by the graphicx package.
2) In this thread Juanjo gave some useful advise to reduce the size of a table.