How put together rotated table and paragraphs in a same page in LATEX?

Question

I use "rotating" package to rotate my table in LATEX. It rotates my table in a page lonely. I want to put paragraphs in right side of the rotated table. Is there any solution?

my used code is:

\usepackage{rotating}

\begin{sidewaystable*}[!htbp]

\caption{...}

\begin{tabular}{ccc}

..... data

\end{tabular}

\end{sidewaystable*}

Answer 1

The sidewaystable float always occupies a page by itself. You can use the normal table float and rotate only the table inside or both the table and the caption. I'd prefer the first way. Don't use the h option:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,booktabs}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-3]

\begin{table}[tp] % NO h HERE!
\centering

\rotatebox{90}{%
  \small
  \begin{tabular}{lp{7.5cm}}
  \toprule
  \textbf{A} & \textbf{Text} \\
  \midrule
  X & \lipsum*[2] \\
  Y & \lipsum*[2] \\
  \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}%
}

\caption{Some caption that shouldn't be rotated}\label{tab:r}
\end{table}

\lipsum[4-9]

\begin{table}[tp]% NO h HERE!
\centering

\rotatebox{90}{%
  \begin{minipage}{9cm}
  \small\centering
  \begin{tabular}{lp{7.5cm}}
  \toprule
  \textbf{A} & \textbf{Text} \\
  \midrule
  X & \lipsum*[2] \\
  Y & \lipsum*[2] \\
  \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}%
  \caption{Some caption that shouldn't be rotated}\label{tab:s}
  \end{minipage}%
}
\end{table}

\lipsum[10-15]


\end{document}