7.3 Sideways Floats

The rotating package provides the sidewaysfigure environment:

\begin{sidewaysfigure}

and the sidewaystable environment:

\begin{sidewaystable}

which are like figure and table, respectively, but rotate the entire float (including caption) sideways. This sideways float is always placed on a page of its own.

If you have used the twoside class option (or you are using a class like scrbook, which defaults to that option) then the sideways floats will be rotated clockwise or anti-clockwise, depending on whether they fall on an even (verso) or odd (recto) numbered page. (Requires a second LaTeX run to get it correct.)

Example:

\begin{sidewaysfigure} \centering \includegraphics[width=0.75\textheight]{shapes} \caption{A Sideways Figure} \label{fig:sideways} \end{sidewaysfigure}

The above code produces Figure 7.4.

**Figure 7.4:** A Sideways Figure

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