"Stephan D. Picard" wrote:
>
> 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.
have a look at
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/nonFloat.html
for nonFloats inside floats and subfigure
also look at package rotating for sidewaysfigure
Herbert
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