[Tex/LaTex] Rotated text in side margin

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I've typeset a very wide table using longtable and rotating all the cells. As a consequence, if I want to place a "right" header, it ought to be in the bottom of the right margin, with the text rotated. I've been looking at some combination of fancyhdr and rotating, but can't get it to work. Rotating the text isn't the problem, but how does one place text at the bottom of a side margin?

Right now I have

\pagestyle{fancy} 
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\begin{turn}{-90}\parbox{2in}{test \\ line two}\end{turn}}

which, of course, doesn't actually end up in the side margin.

Best Answer

It sounds like what you want to do is produce a single page in landscape. I was hoping that the geometry package's \newgeometry could do this, but it cannot.

I'd guess that the best bet would be to simply make another single page pdf that is in landscape for your table and then use \includepdf from pdfpages.

I guess that one alternative would be to use \newgeometry in concert with a single rotation of a minipage which contained all of the headers for that page (which you may have to just fill out yourself). Then you rotate the whole minipage and stuff it in the appropriate location. It'd take some fiddling around with though. It's also less attractive if the fancyhdr stuff doesn't work and the headers have to be written by hand.

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[Tex/LaTex] Rotated text in a rotated figure

I would expect the figure to be the focal point of a sidewaysfigure. As such, the figure orientation should line up with the sidewaysfigure caption, which is rotated 90 degrees counter clock-wise. This seems to be your case already. However, I would rotate image elements so that they line up with whatever the image dictates. You don't want the reader to switch orientation for the caption, for the image, and for some of the overlaid text.

My reference is from a practical point of view; if the orientation of view is incorrect in portrait, a single turn (of the head) should result in the correct view (without any additional turns for text or explanation). That is, in its entirety, the figure is either viewed in portrait (upright) or landscape (rotated) "mode."

Publishers and journals have varying requirements regarding images in its submitted and eventual published form. This may even differ within journals from the same publisher. As such, I don't think there is a concrete standard or reference other than prevailing logic.

[Tex/LaTex] Rotated, running text in right margin

This is a tikz + fancyhdr way of getting things done. Here the text is automatically put on right of odd and left of even pages.

\documentclass[12pt,x11names,svgnames,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.misc}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage{lipsum,fancyhdr}
\usepackage[a4paper,bindingoffset=.2in,left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in,headheight=\baselineskip,
   headsep=9mm,footskip=13mm,showframe]{geometry}

\fancypagestyle{sideheading}{%
  %% Clear all headers and footers
  \fancyhf{}
    %% Right headers on odd pages
  \fancyhead[RO]{%
      \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
      \node[fill=NavyBlue!50,text=white,
      inner ysep=12pt, inner xsep=20pt,
      rounded rectangle,
      execute at begin node={\begin{varwidth}{\textheight}},%<====
      execute at end node={\end{varwidth}},
      rotate=90]
      at ([xshift=-13mm,yshift=0mm]current page.east)
      {\sffamily\nouppercase{Rotated, right margin running text which is
vertically centered and only for odd pages and this is going to be long}};
    \end{tikzpicture}
        }
        %% Left headers on even pages
\fancyhead[LE]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
      \node[fill=magenta!50,text=white,
      inner ysep=12pt, inner xsep=20pt,
      rounded rectangle,
      execute at begin node={\begin{varwidth}{\textheight}},%<====
      execute at end node={\end{varwidth}},
      rotate=90]
      at ([xshift=13mm,yshift=0mm]current page.west)
      {\sffamily\nouppercase{Rotated, right margin running text which is
vertically centered and only for even pages}};
    \end{tikzpicture}
        }
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
  \fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
}
% ----------------------------------------------------------------
\pagestyle{sideheading}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-12]
\end{document}

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