# text after aftertable environment not filling white space prior - rotated full page tables

I'm writing a document with some full page tables that need to be rotated. This is fine, but float behaviour is not working like I would expect - I have some text 1, an afterpage environ with full page table, some text 2, an afterpage environ with full page table, then some text 3. On the page containing some text 2, there is a lot of white space at the bottom, that I would expect to contain some of some text 3, so long as I avoid \clearpage calls.

Example code here:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{bm}

%for rotated tables
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{afterpage}

\newcommand{\vect}[1]{\boldsymbol{\mathbf{#1}}}

\begin{document}

text before tables

\begin{afterpage}
\clearpage
\begin{landscape}

\begin{table*}
\centering
\caption{a wide table}
\label{tab:simtable}
\begin{scriptsize}
\begin{scalebox}{.9}

\begin{tabular}{llrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr}
\toprule
&  & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{Coverage}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{Mean}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{RMSE}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{CI width}}\\
\cmidrule(lr){3-6}\cmidrule(lr){7-10}\cmidrule(lr){11-13}\cmidrule(lr){14-17}
\textbf{Parameter} & \textbf{Symbol} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F profile} & \textbf{F SE} & \textbf{True} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F profile} & \textbf{F SE}\\
\midrule
T0mean\_eta1 & $\vect{\eta}_{1[1]}$ & 0.94 & 0.95 & 0.95 & 0.95 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 0.09 & 0.09 & 0.09 & 0.34 & 0.35 & 0.35 & 0.35 \\
T0mean\_eta2 & $\vect{\eta}_{1[2]}$ & 0.95 & 0.96 & 0.94 & 0.95 & 1.00 & 1.00 & 1.01 & 1.00 & 0.10 & 0.11 & 0.10 & 0.42 & 0.43 & 0.43 & 0.42 \\
drift\_eta1\_eta1 & $\vect{A}_{[1,1]}$ & 0.95 & 0.94 & 0.97 & 0.96 & -0.40 & -0.40 & -0.42 & -0.40 & 0.04 & 0.05 & 0.04 & 0.17 & 0.19 & 0.18 & 0.17 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\end{scalebox}
\end{scriptsize}
\end{table*}

\end{landscape}

\end{afterpage}

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\begin{afterpage}%

\begin{landscape}

\begin{table*}
\centering
\caption{another table}
\label{tab:simtable2}
\begin{scriptsize}
\begin{scalebox}{.9}

\begin{tabular}{llrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr}
\toprule
&  & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{Coverage}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{Mean}} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{RMSE}} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{\textbf{CI width}}\\
\cmidrule(lr){3-6}\cmidrule(lr){7-10}\cmidrule(lr){11-13}\cmidrule(lr){14-17}
\textbf{Parameter} & \textbf{Symbol} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F profile} & \textbf{F SE} & \textbf{True} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F} & \textbf{B true} & \textbf{B full} & \textbf{F profile} & \textbf{F SE}\\
\midrule
T0mean\_eta1 & $\vect{\eta}_{1[1]}$ & 0.94 & 0.96 & 0.87 & 0.94 & 1.00 & 1.13 & 1.04 & 1.09 & 0.31 & 0.29 & 0.38 & 1.64 & 1.24 & 29.71 & 1.42 \\
T0mean\_eta2 & $\vect{\eta}_{1[2]}$ & 0.95 & 0.96 & 0.89 & 0.96 & 1.00 & 1.17 & 1.04 & 1.08 & 0.44 & 0.37 & 0.51 & 2.33 & 1.66 & 106.23 & 1.92 \\
drift\_eta1\_eta1 & $\vect{A}_{[1,1]}$ & 0.95 & 0.88 & 0.88 & 0.88 & -0.40 & -0.55 & -0.75 & -0.51 & 0.24 & 0.41 & 0.46 & 0.98 & 1.37 & 0.97 & 1.00 \\
drift\_eta2\_eta1 & $\vect{A}_{[1,2]}$ & 0.96 & 0.95 & 0.90 & 0.95 & 0.00 & 0.12 & 0.15 & 0.06 & 0.18 & 0.21 & 0.44 & 0.75 & 0.87 & 0.75 & 0.88 \\
drift\_eta1\_eta2 & $\vect{A}_{[2,1]}$ & 0.97 & 0.89 & 0.90 & 0.90 & 0.10 & 0.17 & 0.27 & 0.15 & 0.13 & 0.21 & 0.30 & 0.60 & 0.76 & 0.57 & 0.64 \\
drift\_eta2\_eta2 & $\vect{A}_{[2,2]}$ & 0.95 & 0.92 & 0.86 & 0.94 & -0.20 & -0.33 & -0.41 & -0.28 & 0.17 & 0.26 & 0.37 & 0.64 & 0.88 & 0.70 & 0.76 \\
manifestvar\_Y1\_Y1 & $\vect{\Theta}_{[1,1]}$ & 0.94 & 0.95 & 0.85 & 0.94 & 1.00 & 0.97 & 0.94 & 0.94 & 0.11 & 0.17 & 0.19 & 0.50 & 0.59 & 0.38 & 24.80 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\end{scalebox}
\end{scriptsize}
\end{table*}

\end{landscape}
\end{afterpage}

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\end{document}

• Why do you need afterpage here at all rather than a normal float? – David Carlisle Mar 21 '17 at 23:47
• I was led to believe based on reading here that it would be an effective way to put in rotated pages... – Charlie Mar 22 '17 at 0:06
• I'd be very wary of using afterpage in a real document (and I wrote it) if it works Ok, but note the warnings in its documentation – David Carlisle Mar 22 '17 at 0:15

\afterpage is a command with an argument not an environment so

\begin{afterpage}
\clearpage


is

\begingroup
\afterpage{\clearpage}


so only \clearpage is handled by \afterpage and the \begin{landscape} forces a page break at that point.

• Thanks, I wasn't familiar with that sort of behaviour when calling a non-environment as an environment.... doesn't seem intuitive but I guess it serves a purpose. – Charlie Mar 22 '17 at 0:10
• @Charlie it's just an artefact of the way enviornments are defined. \begin{foo} is \foo and \end{foo} is \end{foo} so you have \afterpage \clearpage \begin{landscape}... which is the same as \afterpage{\clearpage}\begin{landscape}... by the standard tex argument parsing. – David Carlisle Mar 22 '17 at 0:26