Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ rotating | Bottom Alignment of rotated Content in Table Cell

[ougka]

Hello all,

I am going crazy with the following.. I've already spent half a day on it. Essentially I have this.

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\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{rotating}

\begin{document}

\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.9}

\begin{table}[!thb]
   \centering{
   \begin{tabular}{|c |l| c |c | c | c | c | c | c | c | c |}
\hline
          \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\footnotesize{Full support (!) }}  &

       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Unified Architecture}}                                \end{sideways}}} &
       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Wang et al.} }           \end{sideways}}}  &
       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Song et al.}}   \end{sideways}}} &
       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Lee and Chung} } \end{sideways}}} &
       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Zrelli et al.}}\end{sideways}}}  &
       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Fathi et al.} }\end{sideways}}} & {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Heer et al.} }  \end{sideways}}}  &
       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Kuntz et al.}}           \end{sideways}}} &
       {\multirow{4}{*}{\begin{sideways}\footnotesize{\textbf{Baek et al.} }             \end{sideways}}} \\


          \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\footnotesize{Some support (-)}}            &      &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    \\
          \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\footnotesize{No support ($\times$)}}       &      &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    \\
          \multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\footnotesize{Unknown (?)}}                 &      &    &    &    &    &    &    &    &    \\ \hline


             \multirow{3}{*}{\begin{sideways}\scriptsize{\textbf{Mobility}}\end{sideways}}
             & Host Mobility	                       & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -  & -  \\ \cline{2-11}
             & Single Network Mobility	               & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -  & -  \\ \cline{2-11}
			 & Nested Network Mobility	               & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -   & -  & -  \\ \hline

		\end{tabular}
    
	\caption{test}
	\label{test}
}
\end{table}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.0}

\end{document}

that produces this :

rotating-table-sideways.png (19.35 KiB) Viewed 7841 times

What I really want is

1. to have all the sideway titles of the columns (e.g. Wang et al., Song et al. etc) aligned at the bottom of the cell (and not at the centre as they are now)
2. have a bit of space on the Unified Architecture title at the top (so that it looks more spacious in the field.

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hello ougka!

The code is not so easy to read and to modify, perhaps that's a reason why there was no answer.

LaTeX is a semantic macro language, so it's recommended to do all repeated things by macros, and use semantic markup, not physical markup. For example, don't use \textbf in the text, but define a logical macro such as \headformat, which uses \textbf internally. So it's easy to change the physical formatting in the preamble for the whole document, keeping the logical formatting.

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\newcommand*{\headformat}[1]{\footnotesize\textbf{#1}}

At this occasion, let's save the width of the widest entry in the head, plus a bit more as requested:

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\newlength{\maxlen}
\settowidth{\maxlen}{\headformat{Unified Architecture\ }}

Furthermore, you can define a macro \head which does all those repeated multirow sideways things, plus the desired alignment.

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\newcommand*{\head}[1]{%
  \multirow{4}{*}{
    \begin{sideways}
      \makebox[\maxlen][l]{\headformat{#1}}
    \end{sideways}}}

All of this goes into the preamble. Now the table head becomes pretty clean:

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\begin{tabular}{|c |l| *9{c|}}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\footnotesize{Full support (!) }}  &
\head{Unified Architecture} & \head{Wang et al.} & \head{Song et al.} & ...

table.png (31.92 KiB) Viewed 7777 times

Stefan