[Tex/LaTex] How to control table and its title to appear on the same page

tables

Problem: Table's title appears on a different page, and it looks really bad.

The next mage shows what I need to fix:

("Cuadro 4.2" means "Table 4.2" in English. That is the title added by captionof.)

The code I am using for tables looks like this:

   \begin{center}
    \captionof{table}{Convergencia pm6-cluster}\label{table:convergencia_cluster_pm6}
    \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
    \hline
    \textbf{nºconf} & \textbf{$\Delta G^0$-SS} & \textbf{$\Delta G^0$-Packmol} \\ \hline
    5 & -64.6 & -64.7 \\ \hline
    10 & -65.5 & -64.1 \\ \hline
    15 & -63.7 & -66.5 \\ \hline
    20 & -64.3 & -65.0 \\ \hline
    30 & -65.9 & -66.3 \\ \hline
    40 & -67.2 & -65.6 \\ \hline
    50 & -66.7 & -65.3 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
    \end{center}

Any help?

Best Answer

\begin{table}[H]
    \centering
\captionof{table}{Convergencia pm6-cluster}\label{table:convergencia_cluster_pm6}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
\textbf{nºconf} & \textbf{$\Delta G^0$-SS} & \textbf{$\Delta G^0$-Packmol} \\ \hline
5 & -64.6 & -64.7 \\ \hline
10 & -65.5 & -64.1 \\ \hline
15 & -63.7 & -66.5 \\ \hline
20 & -64.3 & -65.0 \\ \hline
30 & -65.9 & -66.3 \\ \hline
40 & -67.2 & -65.6 \\ \hline
50 & -66.7 & -65.3 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

of course, for this you need add \usepackage{float} to document preamble. however, such solution (also with use of minipage for the same effect) is -- to my opinion -- against to latex "philosophy" of nice document formatting. I would rather use:

\begin{table}[ht]
    \centering
\caption{Convergencia pm6-cluster}
      \label{table:convergencia_cluster_pm6}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
\textbf{nºconf} & \textbf{$\Delta G^0$-SS} & \textbf{$\Delta G^0$-Packmol} \\ \hline
5 & -64.6 & -64.7 \\ \hline
10 & -65.5 & -64.1 \\ \hline
15 & -63.7 & -66.5 \\ \hline
20 & -64.3 & -65.0 \\ \hline
30 & -65.9 & -66.3 \\ \hline
40 & -67.2 & -65.6 \\ \hline
50 & -66.7 & -65.3 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

this allows to float table to the next page (as at first solution) but also enable to fill empty space on previous page with text after inserting a table in document. otherwise you will have there (ugly) empty space.

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I gather that the figure should be at the very top of a page, to be followed immediately by the table environment. (Moreover, I'm taking for granted that the two environments will actually fit on a single page, right?)

You could achieve these objectives by loading the afterpage package and "encasing" the figure and table environments in an \afterpage{...} statement, as is shown in the following code fragment:

\afterpage{%    % defer execution until the next page break occurs anyway
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      \centering
      % remaining contents of figure environment
   \end{figure}
   \begin{table}[h!] % not t or b or p
      \centering
      % remaining contents of table environment
   \end{table}
} % end of argument of `\afterpage` command

I'm further assuming that there are no deferred figure and/or table environments already waiting to be typeset. If that were the case, you should issue a \clearpage instruction as the very first item in the argument of the \afterpage command. (Even if there are no accumulated deferred floats to take care of, there's no harm done by issuing a \clearpage instruction anyway at the start of the \afterpage material; it would simply be ignored by TeX.)

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You are facing two problems here:

The hvfloat package does not set \@captype (like an ordinary floating environment does) so the subcaption package has no idea if its commands are used inside a figure, a table, or not within a floating environment at all. This must be fixed by Herbert, however you could use \captionsetup{type=table} as workaround.
The standard document classes set \abovecaptionskip to a value of 10pt, \belowcaptionskip to 0pt. \abovecaptionskip will be used above the caption, and \belowcaptionskip below of it. However, this gives you a obvious problem when a \caption is typeset above a figure or table content since you will get a distance of \belowcaptionskip (=0pt) between caption and content, i.e. no distance of all. There are two different (and incompatible) ways to resolve this situation:
- \abovecaptionskip will be used between caption and content, \belowcaptionskip will be used between caption and edge of the floating environment. (This has the advantage that you could use the default values of \abovecaptionskip and \belowcaptionskip as set by the document class, and the result will not change at all when using \caption below its contents, as designed by Leslie Lamport.)
- If the caption is below its content, only \abovecaptionskip is used. If the caption is above its content, only \belowcaptionskip is used. (The skips need to be adjusted for making this work, but you are able to setup different skips for above-captions and below-captions here.)

As you see both methods have its pros and cons, but are unfortunately incompatible. However, KOMA-Script and the (sub)caption package are using the first method while hvfloat seems to use the latter. (I'm not sure about this since I didn't have found the time to look into Herbers sources, but at least hvfloat changes the values of the caption skips and therefore just loading the package will affect the skips of the non-hvfloat-floating environments (and the longtable environment and...) as well.)

To compensate this one needs to write macros to save and restore the skips.

So in total we have:

\documentclass[a4paper] {scrbook}

% Save the values of \abovecaptionskip and \belowcaptionskip into \restorecaptionskips
\edef\restorecaptionskips{%
  \noexpand\setlength\noexpand\abovecaptionskip{\the\abovecaptionskip}%
  \noexpand\setlength\noexpand\belowcaptionskip{\the\belowcaptionskip}}
%\show\restorecaptionskips
\usepackage{hvfloat}
% Save the changed values of \abovecaptionskip and \belowcaptionskip into \restorehvcaptionskips
\edef\restorehvcaptionskips{%
  \noexpand\setlength\noexpand\abovecaptionskip{\the\abovecaptionskip}%
  \noexpand\setlength\noexpand\belowcaptionskip{\the\belowcaptionskip}}
% Restore the values of \abovecaptionskip and \belowcaptionskip
\restorecaptionskips

\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{document}

\appendix \cleardoublepage
\chapter{Some Data Tables}

\restorehvcaptionskips % only needed if "capPos=t"
\hvFloat[capPos=b,rotAngle=90,nonFloat]{table}{%
\restorecaptionskips
\captionsetup{type=table}% set \@captype
  \hspace*{\fill}
  \begin{subtable}{.3\textwidth}
    \rule{\linewidth}{12cm}
  \end{subtable}
  %
  \hspace*{\fill}
  %
  \begin{subtable}{.3\textwidth}
    \rule{\linewidth}{12cm}
  \end{subtable}
  \hspace*{\fill}
}{Table with interesting data}{}
\restorecaptionskips

\end{document}

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