Jan Warnking wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a table that is rotated by 90deg, and would like to rotate the > caption, too and have it appear to the right of the table (under it if > you turn the page to read the table). And since the table is just very > large, but short, I would like to put two of these tables (with their > captions) on one page. I figure that if I can display one correctly, the > rest should be easy with minipages. > Right now I have the two tables on one page, and the captions at the > bottom of the page under each table (to the left of it if you turn the > page). Since the tables do not have equal width, this looks awkward, apart > from the fact that you can't read tables and captions at the same time.
attached an example Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 218 \textclass article \begin_preamble \usepackage[hang]{caption2} \usepackage{rotating} \end_preamble \language ngerman \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Title rotating a image with caption \layout Author Herbert Voß \layout Standard Don't forget to write in preamble: \layout LyX-Code \backslash usepackage{rotating} ,... \layout Standard \begin_float fig \layout Standard \latex latex \backslash begin{rotate}{90}% \layout Standard \latex latex \backslash begin{minipage}[c]{ \backslash columnwidth} \layout Standard \align center \begin_inset Figure size 56 79 file rose.eps width 1 2 flags 9 \end_inset \layout Caption Typical Typical \layout Standard \latex latex \backslash end{minipage}% \layout Standard \latex latex \backslash end{rotate} \latex default \end_float not in red (tex) ... \layout Standard and so on \layout Standard test \the_end