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Unfortunately my table is too wide to use longtable.

In sideways it fits on width.

Unfortunately it's too long to fit on one page.

Is there something like sidewayslongtable, a way to combine sideways with longtable ?

P.S. I use pdflatex. 'pdflscapes' (and 'lcapes') are almost perfect except one thing: they do not only rotate content of page (like sideways) but also page itself. I would like to rich result, as proposed 'pdflscapes'+'longtable' but without pages being rotated.

Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
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Expanding on David's answer, you can use the lscape (or pdflscape) package to put a longtable into a series of landscape pages.

If you use the lscape package, the content of pages is rotated; if you use the pdflscape package, the physical pages in the PDF are also rotated.

Here's a schematic example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdflscape} % or {lscape}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{longtable}
...
\end{longtable}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

Crucially you can't use the table environment here, but the longtable package provides a \caption command to add captions to the table and the TOC for these sorts of tables.

Alan Munn
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    Longtable has it's own caption command that should work here – David Carlisle Feb 11 '12 at 20:27
  • It's almost was I am looking for, without one detail : not only contents is rotated, those pages are rotated! I am looking for solution, which will rotate contents (like sideways not pages it-self). Even thou, it's very interesting to now about such option :). – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Feb 11 '12 at 20:33
  • The lscape pacckage rotates just the content, I think. The pdflscape package just adds the extra functionality of rotating the physical pages. – Alan Munn Feb 11 '12 at 20:35
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    The rotation of the pages is only a matter of your PDF reader, as far as the headers and footes are where you want to have them (which is, I suppose, on the sorter sides). – yo' Feb 11 '12 at 20:37
  • @DavidCarlisle Thanks. I forgot about that. I've updated the answer. – Alan Munn Feb 11 '12 at 20:37
  • In my case lscape simply fails. Two pages go away, and only third is seen. @AlanMunn What about "just reader rotates it", with sidewaystable it doesn't - and this is the way I would like it to work - that's why title is "sidewayslongtable". – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Feb 11 '12 at 20:56
  • @GrzegorzWierzowiecki If you're having problems with lscape update your question with a minimal example that shows the issue. – Alan Munn Feb 11 '12 at 21:22
  • I could not rotate the longtable, I tried using \landscape environment but it just rotates the page, not the table content – samra irshad Sep 19 '20 at 00:48
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I think you are looking for the lscape package.

diabonas
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David Carlisle
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    This is a funny forum here: quite often, somebody with deep knowledge of TeX & Friends puts the whole thing on the right track. And others refine the answer to make it easier to use those wonderfull packages. Maybe this is an upside of (La-, Con-, Lua-)TeX which is not reckognized often enough: we depend on cooperation. – Keks Dose Feb 11 '12 at 21:41
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    Actually I have problems with 'lscapes' (it "eats" pages, leaving only last in document), but it is not a problem, cause pdflscapes work. There is different problem : both packages rotates not only content, but pages as well. Is there a way to achieve the same effect as pdflscape, but without rotating pages (just content, like sideways does) ? – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Feb 12 '12 at 12:29
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    I don't know what you mean by rotating pages not content. lscape just rotates the page body leaving the page header and footer in their original portrait orientation. (For reading on screen the pdf viewer may rotate the page so the main content is more readable but tjis shouldn;t affect printing. – David Carlisle Feb 12 '12 at 13:01
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    lscape is a supported part of the latex distribution, so if you can make a miminmal example where it goes wrong please run latex latexbug and follow the instructions to send in a bug report (category graphics) and I'll see what I can do. – David Carlisle Feb 12 '12 at 14:34
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If you use pdflatex (not latex), it is possible to change the papersize midway of a document (I hacked geometry.sty, which you are surely using already, just to do that). My solution is not compatible with many output hacks (afterpage, for example; I am not sure how floats would work, too). If this fits your use case (i.e. you are not stuck with dvi or postscript because of PStricks, for example), just leave a comment for more details (basically, you need to redefine margins and paper size). This way, you have pages in landscape mode in the middle of your document. This is one solution, I am sure there are others.

Jean-Christophe Dubacq
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  • Do I understand correctly, you mean changing size for whole document ? I would need to put this table inside of a book, so I can not change geometry for whole document. – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Feb 11 '12 at 20:17
  • The only thing that comes to my mind, you might think about is : generating pages with table separately on "landscape" pages, next - includepdf . It's interesting workaround :). However, lest look for most integrated solution. – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Feb 11 '12 at 20:20