Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Misplaced Appendix title and sidewaystable

[melothe]

Heya,

I am writing my thesis and have a bit of a tricky situation with my tables in the appendices. Because the tables are so wide I need to rotate the table which I do using sidewaystable.

My problem then is that the title for the appendix is written on a otherwise empty page, and the sidewaystable comes on the next page instead. I have tried removing captions and decreasing the text of the table to make sure that it would be able to fit under the appendix title, but it does not help. My code is as follows:

\begin{sidewaystable}[!ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ccccccrc}
\end{tabular}
\caption{}
\end{sidewaystable}

I would be grateful for any help on this, especially since I should hand in my thesis this thursday (3/6).

Best wishes,
Tobias

[TritonMan]

The sidewaystable command always puts the rotated table on a new page, so, no matter how small you make it, it won't fit underneath your title

http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... f=9&t=1146

However, you might be able to do something like:

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\rotatebox{90}{table contents here}

to get an object that will be placed underneath your title. I'm not sure what exactly can go in the contents of the rotate box though (i.e., whether you're allowed to begin a different environment}.

Good luck with your thesis - I'm doing much the same thing at the moment!

[melothe]

Thanks TritonMan for the advice, however rotatebox did not allow me to put a table inside it, I got a wall of errors for that only

Good luck to us both then!

[TritonMan]

Sorry about that, was just an idea off the top of my head. Had a bit more of a think: what about putting the float inside a minipage environment? I think the floats get placed separately in that.

[melothe]

Thank you TritonMan, I am unsure how you mean with a minipage. I am unfamiliar with that. Could you please explain in code how you mean?

[localghost]

An older example from my archive.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \section{Dummy}
    \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{5cm}
      \rotcaption{Dummy}
      \centering
      \begin{sideways}
        \begin{tabular}{cc}\toprule
          Table head & Table head \\ \midrule
          Values & Values \\ \bottomrule
        \end{tabular}
       \end{sideways}
    \end{wrapfigure}
    \blindtext[2]
\end{document}

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Thorsten