Hello,
I have a rather peculiar request about figure float. To the extent of my
knowledge, I'm not sure if this is possible but let's see what the 'gurus'
say.
I'm working on my thesis in which there is plenty of measurements figure
to include. Each 'block' consist of two figure, one on top of the
other. My actual way of dealing with it is to use a figure float with
subfigure in it, make it the dimension of a page and have the standard
float placement specs as to have this on a seperate page.
Now, there is a LOT of these and to reduce space, I would like to have two
of these blocks on one page, rotated (90 degrees) and reduced (the reduce
part is not hard, just have to set the eps dimensions) and side by
side. Now, because each block has 2 subfigures, it makes it a bit tricky
(I can't seperate these two parts of each block). Now, if there's an odd
number of blocks, I would like the pairing left-out to be not-rotated and
placed in the document as a usual float.
What came to mind was to use the lscape package and have the figure
rotated with it but I don't think it's possible to put the
\begin{landscape}
float1
float2
\end{landscape}
into a float thus makes it hard to control the flow of text on the page
before that page with 2 blocks (meaning that I might be left
with half a blank page before that 'landscaped' page.
Does my request make sense? Is it at all possible? See the "drawings" at
the bottom to understand better.
Stephan
In short, I would like to go from, say, three pages that look like this:
-----------
| ******* |
| *fig 1* |
| ******* |
| |
| ******* |
| *fig 2* |
| ******* |
| caption |
| |
-----------
to two page that would look like this
------------ ------------
| *f* *f*c | | ******* |
| *i* *i*a | | *2figs* |
| *g* *g*p | | ******* |
| | | caption |
| | | |
| *f* *f*c | | no-float |
| *i* *i*a | | text |
| *g* *g*p | | here |
| | | |
------------ ------------
