Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Page breaking and landscape longtables

[Matt]

Hello

I would like a particular behaviour in my document and I can't find anything about how to achieve it.

I have a couple of longtables in my document, which are wide enough to require empty landscape pages. I put them in with the code below. I would like the pages this produces to slot nicely into the document. I envision latex finishing the page on which I first reference the table, then slotting in my landscape pages with the long tables on them, then continuing with the rest of the document.

I don't believe that longtables can be put into floats if they require more than one page. So at the moment I just move the longtable around to a reasonable place in each draft, however this always leaves a blank space after the final paragraph on the page before the table when \clearpage is encountered.

Is it even possible to manage what I want? I'd be grateful for any suggestions.

• \pagestyle{empty}
  \newgeometry{left=1cm,right=1cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=1cm,ignoreall=TRUE,noheadfoot=TRUE,nomarginpar=TRUE}\clearpage
  \begin{landscape}
  \input{./Tables/myTable.tex}
  \end{landscape}
  \restoregeometry
  \pagestyle{fancy}

Where myTable looks like

• \small
  \begin{longtable}{rcccrrrrrrrrclp{7cm}}
  \caption[A caption]{A longer caption} \label{tbl:lable} \\
  \toprule
  %%%The first header \\*
  \midrule
  %
  \endfirsthead
  \hline\endfoot
  \endlastfoot
  \toprule
  %%% Further page header
  \midrule
  \endhead
  %
  %A very long, quite wide table
  %
  \bottomrule
  \end{longtable}%
  \normalsize

[Matt]

I have an answer:

Use the afterpage package to start the landscape environment after the end of the current page.

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\afterpage{
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{landscape}
\input{./Tables/myLongTable.tex}
\end{landscape}
\pagestyle{fancy}
}

I'd like to adjust the page margins using the geometry package so the long table is centred and also wider, but I can find no way to restore the original page settings on the page immediately following the landscape pages.