General ⇒ rotating a table

[sgoetgel]

Can someone help me how to rotate a table?
I have some large tables that I included with sidewaystable so that they are in landscape form, but the bottom side of the table points to the outside side of the book-page and I want it to point to the inside of the book . So they need to turn 180 degrees.

Thanks in advance!

Sylvie

[gmedina]

The hvfloat package could be useful. Please take a look at the following simple example (compare the results obtained with sidewaystable and with \hvfloat):

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{hvfloat}

\begin{document} 

\begin{sidewaystable}
  \centering
  \caption{Test table 1}
  \label{tab:test1}
  \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
    a & b \\
    c & d \\
    e & f \\
    g & h \\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{sidewaystable}

%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}}

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

\end{document}

Read the package documentation (it includes several examples) to see all the options it offers.