Landscape table and section/chapter title do not fit together on one page

Question

For my appendix I need to make a table in landscape mode, since the three columns containg quite a lot information and it has to fit on one page. Rotation for the table works just fine with both lscape and rotating (with sidewaystable) packages.

However, I am not able to fit the section/chapter title to the same page as the rotated table. The chapter/section is always on the page before the table. Including the chapter/section within the landscape mode boundaries does not work, since the title/chapter should be in normal portrait mode and only the table in landscape.

I have looked up already this question and this one. The solution of the first one does not work and I can not get the \hvfloat suggestion of the second one to work.

So the page should look somewhat like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\section{Section Title Here}
\begin{sidewaystable}
\centering
\caption{Caption here}
\begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
\toprule
Column A  & Column B      & Column C                   \ \midrule
1234  & AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA    &  BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{sidewaystable}
\end{document}

Answer 1

To provide an actual answer to your question and not just a comment, you can use \rotatebox from the rotating package to manually rotate the tabular (this will not affect the caption though):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
    \section{Section Title Here}
        \begin{table}[tp]
            \centering
            \rotatebox{90}{
                \begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
                \toprule
                    Column A & Column B & Column C \\
                \midrule
                    1234     &   Foo    &   Bar    \\
                \bottomrule
                \end{tabular}
            }
            \caption{Caption here}
        \end{table}
\end{document}

Two notes:

• the \caption is not rotated this way, and
• the table is subject to the usual rules for placing floats.

Both are on purpose. FWIW I've used tp as placement options here --- I tend to believe that this produces the best-looking documents.

That said, if your appendix primarily contains wide tables and little associated text, I think having each of these tables on a page of its own would actually be the best option.

Another note: a better alternative (IMO) to sidewaystable is to put a regular table on a rotated page using pdflscape and afterpage:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
    \section{Section Title Here}
    \afterpage{%
        \clearpage%
        \begin{landscape}
        \begin{table}[p]
            \centering
            \begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
            \toprule
                Column A & Column B & Column C \\
            \midrule
                1234     &   Foo    &   Bar    \\
            \bottomrule
            \end{tabular}
            \caption{Caption here}
        \end{table}
        \end{landscape}
    }
\end{document}

The nice thing about this is that the page will appear as a landscape page in any decent PDF viewer (so those viewing your document on a computer screen won't have to hurt their necks), while printing as portrait page with content that just so happens to be sideways.