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I am currently trying to create one pagers (profiles describing a unit) and my plan was to use a table to do that. It works quite well except for the alignment of the text inside the table. I am using p{...} since I'd like a top-left alignment but this leads to the following output:

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Alignment to the bottom (b{...}) works fine and the issues only seems to occur with a rotation present in the left column. I already tried various things like different means of rotation (e.g. \begin{sideways}), experimenting with the column width and so on.

\documentclass[twoside, english, draft]{article}    

\usepackage{rotating}       
\usepackage{array}              
\newdimen\NetTableWidth
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}

\noindent
\NetTableWidth=\dimexpr
\linewidth
- 8\tabcolsep
- 5\arrayrulewidth
\relax


\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{
    p{.05\NetTableWidth}
    p{.45\NetTableWidth}
    p{.45\NetTableWidth}
}
\toprule
& \textbf{Parameter a} & \textbf{Parameter b} \\
\midrule
\rotatebox{90}{\textbf{Factor a}} 
& 
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris.
& 
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. 
\\ 
\addlinespace[1em]
\rotatebox{90}{\textbf{Factor b}} 
& 
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.
& 
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris.
Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna.
\\ 
\bottomrule 
\end{longtable}
\end{center}

\end{document}
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    Welcome to TeX.SE! Try \rotatebox[origin=center]{90}{\textbf{Factor a}} and likewise \rotatebox[origin=center]{90}{\textbf{Factor b}}.
    – user121799
    Sep 12, 2018 at 15:20
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    unrelated but don't put longtable in a center environment (it doesn't centre it)
    – David Carlisle
    Sep 12, 2018 at 15:22
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    perhaps just because you made a smaller example but the calculation of \NetTableWidth assumes a table of 4 columns and 5 rules, but the one here has 3 columns and no rules.
    – David Carlisle
    Sep 12, 2018 at 15:24
  • Thank's a lot! I found the calculation and the associated table on stackexchange and forgot to change the calculation after working on the table since the calculation was not explained further...
    – OffsetWrench
    Sep 12, 2018 at 16:07

2 Answers 2

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Use the key [origin=r]. You can fine-tune the alignment with a \raisebox – I give an example with the second row:

\documentclass[twoside, english, draft]{article}

\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{array}
\newdimen\NetTableWidth
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}

\noindent
\NetTableWidth=\dimexpr
\linewidth
- 8\tabcolsep
- 5\arrayrulewidth
\relax

\begin{longtable}{
    p{.05\NetTableWidth}
    p{.45\NetTableWidth}
    p{.45\NetTableWidth}
}
\toprule
& \textbf{Parameter a} & \textbf{Parameter b} \\
\midrule
\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{\textbf{Factor a}}
&
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris.
&
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.
\\
\addlinespace[1em]
\raisebox{0.43ex}{\rotatebox[origin=r]{90}{\textbf{Factor b}}}
&
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.
&
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris.
Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna.
\\
\bottomrule
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

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  • I tried both [origin=center] and [origin=r]. Both provide good results with the latter one being the aesthetically more pleasing solution :)
    – OffsetWrench
    Sep 12, 2018 at 16:02
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Bernard gave a great answer, but here is another way to do it

You can use \multirow{1}{=}{\centering \adjustbox{valign=c, rotate=90}{<cell contents>}}. Here, the = means that the multirow width will be determined by the table preamble.

enter image description here

\documentclass[twoside, english, draft]{article}    

\usepackage{rotating}       
\usepackage{array}              
\newdimen\NetTableWidth
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{multirow}


\begin{document}

\noindent
\NetTableWidth=\dimexpr
\linewidth
- 8\tabcolsep
- 5\arrayrulewidth
\relax


\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{
    p{.05\NetTableWidth}
    p{.45\NetTableWidth}
    p{.45\NetTableWidth}
}
    \toprule
    & \textbf{Parameter a} & \textbf{Parameter b}
    \\
    \midrule

    \multirow{1}{=}{\centering \adjustbox{valign=c, rotate=90}{\textbf{Factor a}}}
    & 
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
    lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris.
    & 
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
    lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. 
    \\ 

    \addlinespace[1em]
    \multirow{1}{=}{\centering \adjustbox{valign=c, rotate=90}{\textbf{Factor b}}}
    & 
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
    lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.
    & 
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibu-
    lum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis. Curabitur dictum gravida mauris.
    Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna.
    \\ 
    \bottomrule 
\end{longtable}
\end{center}

\end{document}
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  • Thanks for the input! I thought about using multirow since all of the examples of vertical cell content I could come by were spreading over multiple rows. I was however afraid of the added complexity and many possibilities to screw up the adaption to my use case :) (LateX Beginner with quite limited knowledge)
    – OffsetWrench
    Sep 12, 2018 at 16:22

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