Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ how to set up float for text surrounding landscape table

[devo]

Hi. If I insert a landscape table in the middle of text, it cuts the text off at that point and starts the text after the table on a new page, i.e., it doesn't carry over the text before and after the table so that they're on the same page (as normally occurs with a non-landscape table).

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text
\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}[!htp]\small
\refstepcounter{table}\label{tabl}
\begin{tabular}
%... table information

\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{landscape}
more text

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Cheers!

[localghost]

In most cases there actually is much room for improvement on the table itself in order to avoid rotation. So you might look first where you can modify it to make it match the text width. But for the present you can try the example below.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \centering
    \begin{minipage}[c]{2\baselineskip}
      \captionsetup{width=6.4cm,singlelinecheck=off}
      \rotcaption{The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}\label{tab:dummy}
    \end{minipage}
    \hspace{6pt}
    \begin{minipage}{4cm}
      \rotatebox{90}{%
        \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
      }
    \end{minipage}
  \end{table}

  \blindtext
\end{document}

For more information refer to the epslatex document (Section 24.3 - The rotcaption command, p. 94).


Thorsten