tables
I have this page with section Appendix defined like this
\section{Appendix}
Then I start the table. But somehow the table appears in the next page. The table is small enough to fit in the same page.
I tried with
\begin{table}[!htbp]
....................
\end{table}
But it doesn't seem to help
You are facing two problems here:
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}
P.S.: See also http://sourceforge.net/p/latex-caption/tickets/4/
Your headers are so wide that the table will not fit. You need to force their widths to be smaller, one solution is to put the multicolumn ones in a p type column of specified size:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{footmisc}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\begin{minipage}{1.0\linewidth}
\centering
\caption{aaaaa aaaaa aaaa aaaa}
\begin{tabulary}{1\textwidth} {J J J J J J J J}
\toprule Aaaaa aaa & Bbbbbbbbb & \multicolumn{2}{p{2cm}}{CCCCCC
CCCcccccc} & \multicolumn{2}{p{2cm}}{Dddddddd} &
\multicolumn{2}{p{2cm}}{Eeeeeeeeee\footnote{ccccc ccccc cc}
eeeeeee eeeeeee} \\
\midrule \multirow{5}[9]{*}{Kitchen} & Refrigerator & 40 & &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{14} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\multirow{5}[9]{*}{40}} &
\multirow{2}[4]{*}{28} & \multirow{5}[9]{*}{55} \\
& Separate freezer & 40 & & \multicolumn{1}{l}{10} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{} & & \\
& Dishwasher & 40 & & \multicolumn{1}{l}{7} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{} & \multirow{2}[4]{*}{16} & \\
& Washing machine & 40 & & \multicolumn{1}{l}{9} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{} & & \\
& Others & 40 & & \multicolumn{1}{l}{-} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{} & 11 & \\
\multirow{2}[3]{*}{Electric equipment} & Informatics &
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\multirow{2}[3]{*}{33}} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{7} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\multirow{2}[3]{*}{13}} & 12 &
\multirow{2}[3]{*}{21} \\
& Entertainment & \multicolumn{2}{l}{} & \multicolumn{1}{l}{6} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{} & 9 & \\
\multicolumn{2}{l}{Lighting systems} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{13} &
\multicolumn{2}{l}{8} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{18} \\
\multirow{3}[6]{*}{HVAC} & Air heating & \multicolumn{1}{l}{9} &
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\multirow{3}[6]{*}{11}} & 9 & &
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\multirow{2}[4]{*}{n. a.}} \\
& Air cooling & \multicolumn{1}{l}{2} & \multicolumn{1}{l}{} & 9
& & \multicolumn{2}{l}{} \\
& Air conditioner & \multicolumn{1}{l}{-} & \multicolumn{1}{l}{}
&
9 & & \multicolumn{2}{l}{2} \\
\multicolumn{2}{l}{Water heating} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{2} &
\multicolumn{2}{l}{-} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{n. a.} \\
\multicolumn{2}{l}{Others} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{-} &
\multicolumn{2}{l}{30} & \multicolumn{2}{l}{4} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabulary}
\label{tab:comp_dist_cons_dif_sourc}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Some bad example for tables, but nice to show the floating around of table at the 'wrong' position.
Note
Please look a the screen shot: Although defined as 2nd table (Table 2) it is positioned as 1st one and vice versa.