Questions tagged [rotating]
{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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Intended random rotation of figures
I wanted to do add some graphics to a document in a way that are rotated randomly. For this this purpose I tried the following code
\documentclass[ngerman,german,14pt,twoside,openany]{scrbook}
\...
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How to top-align the rotated cell contents of one row in a table?
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[]{scrartcl}
% PACKAGES
\usepackage[]{mathtools,amsthm,amssymb,mathrsfs,mathalfa} % Math Packages
\usepackage[]{bm} % To get bold math.
\usepackage[]{...
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Illegal character in array argument
I produced a table several weeks ago (reference image attached) that I am now trying to add into a larger document. The first issue I am running into is that I now get an error message "Illegal ...
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How do I keep text from rotating when rotating an op amp in circuitikz?
As you can see when running the MWE, the minus sign of the op amp is vertical. What is the easiest way to make it horizontal?
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{circuitikz}
\begin{document}
\...
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Rotating symbols in exponents
So I saw another post on here explaining how to rotate a symbol by some degree, the solution they gave was
\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{ \equiv}, but this seems to mess with the size and placement of the ...
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Rotation causing gaps around vertices?
The previous question resolved well by the user mickep, but I found rotate causes gaps around many nodes. The nodes and lines are not closely aligned.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{...
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Sideways figure at beginning of chapter
In the thesis I'm writing, I have an appendix chapter with figures inserted sideways so they got ampliated. However, the first page in that chapter always stays blank, first picture moves to next page ...
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How to rotate a gradient along with the rectangle
When I rotate a rectangle with a gradient fill, the gradient stays relative to the document or canvass or whatever. I want the gradient to rotate with the rectangle so that it changes along its width ...
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Relative Fade Direction with Tikz Fading
I have a custom function that creates a tikzpicture that has been rotated via
\begin{tikzpicture}[rotate=angle]
...
\end{tikzpicture}
where "angle" is an argument to the function so that ...
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Adjusting height of rotated symbol
I am trying to replicate the following symbol that's in between the two M's:
I assume it is \exists rotated by -90°. When trying to rotate it via \rotatebox, the symbol doesn't lie flat anymore ...
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Aligning rotated headings in LaTeX tables
I have a wide table that I'm trying to wrangle, and I think I have it just about done except for the table headings. In the example below, I've had to rotate the headings for columns 5, 6, and 8. I've ...
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How to make the elements of the first row of this table rotate like this photo [duplicate]
I'm trying to make this table and as you see it, the first row is rotated
So far I've done this
\begin{tabular}{|*{41}{c|}} % repeats {c|} 18 times
\hline
\multicolumn{5}{|c}{Placeholders} & \...
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Landscape table and page numbering
I have a problem with a landscape table and the page numbers. I have already tried several things. Maybe someone can help me fix it.
\afterpage{%
\clearpage
\begin{landscape}
\...
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How change the cuboid side where items A, B, C are located
I would like to change this isometric figure
\documentclass[tikz,border=1.618]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{3d,perspective}
\tikzset
{
abc/.style={fill=red,text=white,transform shape},
pics/my ...
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How to make a rotated cuboid changing the orientation with respect a point and keep the items on it
I would like to make a representation of a cardboard box changing the relative position with respect to a fixed Reader, like this,
The two boxes are identical, but the top box lies on the narrow-long ...
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How to change the relative position of a cuboid and the objects on it
In the following TikZ figure:
\documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{3d}
\makeatletter
\def\tikz@lib@cuboid@get#1{\pgfkeysvalueof{/tikz/cuboid/#1}}
\def\tikz@lib@...
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Rotate box overflow the merged column in table
I'm sorry for the ambiguity of the question's title.
I'm working with a 2-columns latex template. Here's my MWE:
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{My table}
\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{%
\begin{...
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Bending line in 3d
I would like to bend a line between two points in 3 dimensions. However, the argument bend left doesn't seem to allow me to choose which direction I would like this bend to occur. In the below MWE I ...
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Finite rotations with tikz
With my rudimentary knowledge of tikz I want to include to my classnotes that finite rotations are not commutative.This my code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Dimensioning the radius of a circle: `rotate around` doesn't work with polar coordinates?
This question partly extends on this post.
I am using the following command line to rotate a line that I use to dimension the radius of a circle, as mentioned in an answer to the above mentioned post:...
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Rotation of letter which aligns with the text line?
I want a symbol as "e", but rotated 180° around its center, so that the new symbol r(e) aligns with the other letters in the text: abgkr(e)etc.
How may this be achieved?
\documentclass{...
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Rotate header and page number on a horizontal A3 page within an A4 document [closed]
Good morning, I am writing my thesis and should insert an A3 page in the A4 document to be folded once printed in order to insert a very large diagram. I need to keep the layout of the A4 page and ...
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How to rotate a big mathematical operator?
I would like to rotate the \bigcupdot operator, provided by the STIX2 Math font, by 180 degrees about its center. I tried the following code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\...
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Rotate part of Tikz code
I'm trying to create the following picture in tikz:
I managed to plot it, but not with the upper part being tilted:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz, pgfplots}
\...
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LNCS: Large table in sidewaystable
Working with the llncs document class and wanted to place a large table sideways.
Code:
\documentclass[runningheads]{llncs}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required for inserting images
\usepackage{tabularx}
\...
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sideways minipage with figure is misplaced and cut to half
So I want my table and Figure A.2 in the same page and the sideways minipage with figure in a new page.
However I cannot figure out what is happening. If I include a \clearpage in-between the Figure A....
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graphicx,\rotatebox Having the origin of rotation end up in the same place within the surrounding box where it would end up if the box wasn't rotated
For illustrating things I created a mwe where within a table you have cells where a box containing Some text is rotated around its reference point.
The left and right column contain the same. The ...
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Does \reflectbox or \rotatebox affect text size? [duplicate]
I needed a quantifier that looks like an upside-down N so I defined
\newcommand{\namesym}{\reflectbox{\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{$\mathsf{N}$}}}
In most places, this has about the same size as ...
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How to have some pages rotated with pdfpages
I'm trying to make a zine (8 page folded booklet) using LaTeX that takes in an 8 page pdf and arranges the pages properly to print, but have an issue where I have to also have a flipped pdf inputted ...
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How to swap or invert the behavior of 'sidewaysfigure' from package 'rotating'?
For the book class, by default the package rotating will rotate an instance of the environment sidewaysfigure
counterclockwise by 90 degrees if the floating page lands on an odd page number, or
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Drawing physical diagrams (particle spin)
I'm trying to draw a particle and visualize the rotation of the particle. So far I have done this:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\def\r{1.5} % Radius des Kreises
\filldraw[top color=red,bottom color=...
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Why does the landscape table does not rotate?
I have made a MWE with my (long) table and very few packages.
Apparently, even if I use landscape the only thing rotating is the page but not the table in it which is what I would like to rotate ...
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How to make outwards facing tables with captions at the sides in a twoside document?
I am writing a twoside document using pdfLaTeX with texlive-full:2022.1 in Overleaf. I have two tables, each on a single page. I want to use SCTable from the sidecap package to have the captions at ...
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Rotatebox on footnotes
I am trying to create hints to exercises, and would like a footnote with the text appearing upsidedown. I've created the following command, however this doesn't produce any line breaks so the text ...
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Right placement in `.pdf` file but wrong after `pdf2ps mergeS.pdf mergeS2.ps`
I've asked a related question elsewhere:
I have now good placed pdf together with the right rotation:
However, after
pdf2ps mergeS.pdf mergeS2.ps
gs -sDEVICE=ps2write -o A22.ps -r120x120 mergeS2.ps
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Package tablefootnote Error: Package rotating loaded after tablefootnote
How can I solve this error appearing in the main file of my dissertation?
Package microtype Warning: Unable to apply patch 'footnote' on input line xx.
\begin{document}
Here is a view of the used ...
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Horizontal centering of rotated text in multirow table
I have created a table with the following latex code:
\documentclass[convert]{standalone}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{@{}...
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Vertically center cell in a table with rotate-box
I need help with vertical centering of the tabularx cells with text and rotatebox elements.
Here is my code (edit: updated the sniplets according to comment):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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How to remove space
How do I
remove space between rows
align the numbers with text
fit the table to correct paper size and become two long tables, rather than three table on three pages
\documentclass{article}
\...
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\rotatebox{} without horizontal translation
I would like to rotate an element inside of a picture environment about a specified point. I tried using \rotatebox{} for this. This webpage describes what \rotatebox{} does:
Rotate the element about ...
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How to adjust a text in a sideways table column?
I have this sideways table (in the attached image) and I would like to "adjust" the text in the columns. I can see that it is centered but when I attempt to just leave it un-centered, it ...
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"Missing \endcsname inserted", and "Extra \endcsname." exceptions
Recently I had to rotate my table by "sidewaystable" and I got weird exceptions:
in the main.tex file i included the package by \usepackage{rotating}
\begin{sidewaystable}
\centering
\...
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Rotating an ellipse
There are some similar questions out there, but none that seemed to quite fit what I was looking for (that I saw).
I have a plane cutting through a right circular cone giving a circle (technically ...
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Table with rotated column label
I am trying to make a table where the column label is rotated 90 degrees, I found some code online (see below) and almost got where I wanted. However the lines are not running up completely so column ...
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Evaluate rotation based on atan x
I would like to express the angle of rotation for the tangent line in terms of atan x using the slope (which is calculated earlier in the problem). I can get it to work using the angle but I do not ...
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rotate text in tabular array [closed]
I have the following table:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}
%------ tables
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\colorlet{bgodd}{black!10}
\usepackage{...
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How to design a professional table by loading it from .csv file?
I found a similar question (useful_question) that I'm following to build my table but I'm not able to get the desired results, i.e. the following table but with the booktabs style (that I'm not able ...
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Placement of page number when page is rotated, plus warning
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{everypage}
\newcommand*\Lpagenumber{\ifdim\textwidth=\textwidth\else\bgroup
\dimendef\margin=0 %use \margin ...
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Rotation of a character around another character centered
Suppose you have a character in the center, how should you rotate another character near it clockwise or counterclockwise?
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Chapter name verticaly in outer margin in toc
I want to do something like this:
rotate the chapter name and put it in the outer margin of a book class document. How can I do it?