{rotating} is for general questions about rotating document elements as well as for questions about the `rotating` package and its `sidewaysfigure` and `sidewaystable` (floating) environments. For general {rotating} questions add other tags specifying what should be rotated.
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How to rotate a box in-place
The following LaTeX code illustrates my question. Is it possible to get what I want without doing the negative \hskip, as I want a simple generic solution which will rotate the box to any angle ...
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Rotate node text and use relative positioning in TikZ?
In TikZ, I sometimes want to rotate the text within a node and then position the node relative to another. However, the approach below doesn't work as expected:
\documentclass{standalone}
...
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Spirograph, Continuous Rotations in TikZ or PSTricks
Spirograph-like drawings are obtained when one repeatedly draws a closed curve on a continuously rotated canvas. Is there a nice way to make spirograph drawings using TikZ or PSTricks? There is a nice ...
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Rotate every letter/character by 90 deg, keeping left-to-right letterflow intact
I'd lik to rotate every letter/character of a paragraph 90 degrees counterclockwise, yet keeping the left-to-right flow intact.
Everything I have found so far only rotates one letter at a time and ...
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Radial Labels on Mindmap - Part II
This is a continuation from Part I, where a solution was provided to create rotating labels in a radial fashion.
Closeup of the output looking like this:
I was able to improve the solution, ...
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Creating a triangular table
Is there a way to create something that looks like this?
I have looked at the \rotatebox command, but that will not get the same "jagged" edges on the bottom, and looked at How to draw a ...
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Is there something like “sidewayslongtable”?
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 ...
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Rotate individual letters of the text using TikZ
I would like to rotate each character in the text of the TikZ edge label while keeping the edge label's orientation unchanged.
The following code:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
% ...
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Rotated column titles in tabular
I'd like to create a chart where the column titles are rotated, as per this toy example:
I used the rotating package to generate the above. It has certain shortcomings: the rotate command doesn't ...
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How to rotate a table?
I have a table and I want to rotate it. The table has 3 rows and 4 columns, and I want to rotate the text inside this table as well. How can I do this?
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How do I rotate a tikz rectangle about a specific axis?
I am trying to create a beamer animation using tikz, but I can't even get basic rotating of a tikz image working as desired.
I have a rectangle specified by
\draw[rounded corners,dotted] (-3.5,0) ...
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How to fine tune rotation of text along circular path?
After searching the web and finally coming from here (recreating a logo), I couldn't find an answer to what I am looking for. I want to rotate a text inside a circle and have a full control/fine ...
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Rotating a letter
I'd like to rotate a letter such as, say B, to show its reflection or inversion symmetry, or even at an arbitrary angle clockwise or counter-clockwise. Is this possible using commands without drawing ...
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“Foldable” “Booklet” like Toodledo's one (pocketmod)
How to achieve in pdfLaTeX foldable booklets similar to those provided by Toodledo ?
(to make question usable to others LuaTex, ConTeX and other systems answers are highly welcome)
Note: look, how ...
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How to make table with rotated table headers in LaTeX
I saw a table created in PowerPoint and wanted to know how to do it in LaTeX. The table is shown below. The aspects of the table that I'm most interested in are the rotated table headers as well as ...
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Rotation by a non-integer amount
I have to apply a very slightly rotation to an image, a rotation of less than 1º. But it looks like all the rotation commands I've found can handle only integer angles: all the non-integer measures ...
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What is the proper way to create a horizontal table?
I want to have a horizontal table, like this:
However, when using the usual method of creating a table, it quickly becomes a pain having to pre-define the number of columns (especially since I ...
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Sideways text with rule as table label
I've been trying to achieve the following vertical sidebar effect in LaTeX for my resume, but turns out it's far more difficult than I thought (created easily in InDesign):
I've tried everything ...
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How to wrap the 90 degrees rotated text in a table cell
in Microsoft word I have a table which has the following structure.
Now, I need to make a similar table in LaTex to submit a publication, I tried with the following code,
...
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rotating vs lscape vs pdflscape
I'm asking this looking for the ultimate answer. What are the main differences between the three of them? When should I use anyone in particular?
I know there is this question: Should I prefer ...
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Rotate single PDF page when viewing
I got a Latex document which renders fine, some content is rotated using the turn environment from the rotate package. Everything works like it should.
Except: It know that it is possible to display ...
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How to rotate landscape table page in PDF?
Currently I am using
\usepackage{rotating}
\begin{sidewaystable}
\begin{tabular}...\end{tabular}
\end{sidewaystable}
to typeset landscape tables, which works great.
But I want to rotate that page ...
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Rotating text by -90 degrees
Using lscape from the graphics package, one can rotate all of the text within \begin{landscape} and \end{landscape} by 90 degrees, while permitting the text to break across pages. Is there a way to ...
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Rotated, running text in right margin?
I want to place some (large) text, rotated -90 degrees and running the right-hand margin.
After reviewing Chapter Title in rotated vertical box at the margin and the somewhat related (albeit for ...
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TikZ: How to rotate and then shift?
I'm trying to rotate a node and then shift it along the X axis. If I do [rotate=90, xshift=-20pt], the node will first shift and then rotate.
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Rotate picture with caption
How can I rotate both a picture and its title in TeX?
Parameter in \includegraphics allows to rotate only a picture.
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How can I rotate a large part of the page?
I'm trying to "hide" and answer by rotating it 180 degrees.
Using \rotatebox works fine if I have a short answer:
\rotatebox{180}{The answer is $\pi$}
However, if I want to put a ...
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TikZ diagonal text
Can you rotate text diagonally in TikZ / latex?
I tried
\coordinate (P) at (0,0) ;
\draw[rotate around={45:(P)}] (P) node {hello} ;
But it just draws the text straight (horizontally).
I want the ...
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How to translate and rotate the heading of landscaped pages?
Objective
How to change the heading of landscaped pages from
to
?
Minimal Code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[a5paper,hmargin=3cm,vmargin=5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lscape,lipsum}
...
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How to achieve a multi-column layout for footnotes?
How can you achieve a multi-column layout for footnotes?
I have one page filled only with a rotated table (landscape layout, the sidewaystable environment). The table is annotated by a lot of ...
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How to float until on left (or right) page?
I have two sideways tables that I want on two facing pages so the reader can turn the entire book and read them both in one turn. For the moment I keep moving them around to keep them on facing pages. ...
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How to rotate hyperlink with text
How can I rotate the link of a text in a node. Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (rect) [rectangle, ...
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How to Rotate Text in Table across column spanning many rows
\documentclass[fleqn,12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{minipage}[b]{1 \linewidth}\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
...
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Keep first column on every page of long sideways-table
I have a table with a lot of columns, so I am going to make it landscape.The very first column is a sort of header, so I would like to repeat it on every page. Is there a way to do that?
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Confused about TikZ \draw[rotate=angle]
I was trying in vain to use a rotated ellipse today and finally got it to work in an extremely hackish way. Trying to follow up, I turned to the manual (pg. 26):
You can also append an ellipse to ...
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Landscape caption for a rotated figure in a portrait page
I've managed to rotate an image 90 degrees to be as if in landscape mode, but I still need to change location and rotation of the caption to match the image's orientation, while keeping the page in ...
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Sideways margin with parbox?
How to get right margin in parboxed header? Top, bottom and left margin are ok, but there is no margin at the right (top) side of 'Parameter' header.
\begin{table}[ht]\footnotesize
\centering
...
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assistance on good handling of text on TikZ paths
I am putting together an ornate logo using TikZ. The logo as it is currently is as follows:
I request assistance on handling the lowermost outer text (which reads "UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW"). For the ...
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Center sideways text in table
I'm trying to make a two-column table environment. The left column is supposed to center the sideways text "Tips" vertically and the right column should be a normal paragraph column.
Here's what I ...
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Alignment in Rotated Text
Does anyone have a workaround to this problem? I am working on my CV, and want to use some rotated text to improve the presentation. Here is a MWE.
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
...
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Translate and rotate an object in TikZ (2D)
Is there a way in Tikz to translate and rotate a, lets say, rectangle by an arbitrary distance/angle?
As an example
Translation: 3 in x-direction, 5 in y-direction
Rotation: 45 degree
Now my goal ...
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multiple rotated figures on one page
I googled for hours and tried all examples I found (rotatebox, subfigures, minipages), but nothing provided the output I am looking for.
Is it really that difficult to place 3 figures rotated so ...
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How to wrap text around a landscape table over multiple pages? \sidewaystable or \landscape + \longtable
I am trying to create a landscape table that breaks over multiple pages. I have successfully done this with the following:
\begin{landscape}
\begin{longtabu} to \textwidth{some columns}
\caption[my ...
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What is the best way to obtain a “vertical” subset symbol?
I am trying to typeset a table indicating various kinds of $\subset$ relations for objects in a grid. Is there a way to obtain a subset symbol that applies vertically, between objects where one is ...
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Rotate Header table
I've recently encountered PDF from a latex document where the header are rotated.
As it's hard to explain I thought an image should be used:
Does anyone have any idea how to create such table?
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Rotate a placetable/placefigure plus caption in ConTeXt?
I've a large table, which I want to rotate to fit onto one page. My current solution looks like:
\placetable{some text}
{\rotate[rotation=90]{
\starttable[...]
....
\stoptable}}
But ...
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arrowhead rotation
I want the arrowhead to look more natural as opposed to goofy (which is the present state)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.new, decorations.markings, calc, fadings,
...
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problem with image rotation
I am facing a weird problem. I am trying to include an eps file into my thesis. The code I am using is as follows:
\documentclass[11pt,twoside]{ce}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
...
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Sideways figure with rotated page number
The submission requirements require that any landscaped image have the page number on the 11" side of the page, at the bottom and centered. I can't figure out how to do this.
I'm using ...
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How to rotate text inline?
I used the rotating package to rotate the symbol 90 positive degrees and that worked well. But I also want to rotate it 270 positive degrees and then it ends up hanging down on the line below. How can ...
