General ⇒ Rotating tables

[Frank]

I am trying to rotate my tables and their captions.

I have tried to use the package rotating, so that I can use \rotatebox{90}{}. However, this does not rotate my caption, as it has to be within the table environment.

I then tried the sidewaystable environment, but this rotates the table by 270 degrees if the pages are even and by 90 degrees for odd pages. I require the table on the even page to be rotated by 90, as two tables are on consecutive (first even then odd) pages. Then the reader would only need turn the document once to be able to read both tables simultaneously, making comparisons easier.

Any ideas?

[Ledurt]

what about the lscape package? Use the "landscape" environment. I don't know if the caption willl rotate with the table, but I belive so.

[Frank]

Thanks Ledurt

That worked well. The only problem now is that the table is left-aligned, not centered in the page. I have tried

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\begin{center}
   \begin{landscape}
        \begin{table}[htb]
        \end{table}
   \end{landscape}
\end{center}

but this did not work. I then tried

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\begin{landscape}
    \centering
    \begin{table}[htb]
    \end{table}
\end{landscape}

with no success. I then figured that since the table would be on a page on its own anyway, the table location assignment [htb] could be changed to [p], then it would be centered in the page.

This is not an ideal set-up (even though it fulfills my formatting needs), as I may want to rotate the table and its caption by 270 degrees, instead of the 90 that lscape rotates it by. Also, if the table were not to fill an entire page, using the location assignment [p] would waste valuable space in order to center the table.

I found that using the package pdflscape conveniently turns the page on which the tables are found into landscape mode when compiling to PDF. This makes the tables easier to read in Adobe Reader.

[localghost]

The rotating package provides two options turn and rotate, which could do the right alignment for your tables. Search for "rotating.dvi" on your system. I found it in the texmf tree.

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%TEXMF%\doc\latex\rotating

Then the normal usage of the sidewaystable environment will do the trick.

[pfjorgeo]

Hello. When using the "rotating" package, try

\begin{sidewaystable}[!htbp]
\begin{tabular}...
...
\end{tabular}
\caption{...}
\end{sidewaystable}

That code works when compiling LaTeX => PDF (i.e., using PDFTeX directly) or LaTeX => PS => PDF (using PDFTeX through PostScript). I don't know if it works compiling LaTeX => DVI.

[localghost]

Here is a supplement to my preceded post. As i recently read in epslatex, the rotating package accepts the options figuresright and figuresleft. That should solve the problem with the sidewaysfigure and sidewaystable environment.

[nippur_1967]

help!!!
I need to use:

begin{longtable}
lot of rows and columns
end{longtable}

but i want to rotate this table due that occupies many pages, what can i do?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use the lscape package or pdflscape in the case of pdflatex, put the longtable into a landscape environment.

Stefan

[FeDeX]

I answer to Frank. With this code the table was rotated and centered in the page:

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\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}[!ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{}

\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{}
\label{}
\end{table}
\end{landscape}