Sideways figure is moved to the end of document

[Antonius]

Hello all,

I am using the sidewaysfigure environment of the rotating package and
also I use the caption package to adjust the formatting of figure and
table labels. When I set the caption package's skip option to anything
more than 3mm my sideways figures start to appear at the end of the
document.

Can these packages conflict somehow? Otherwise, how can this setting
affect the placement of sideways figures?

Thanks in advance,
Anton

[Robin Fairbairns]

the packages don't conflict.

however, the float system won't place things that are too wide for the
page; when that happens, *all* subsequent environments are pushed to
the end of the document. the fact that the behaviour is dependent on
the skip value says (to me) that you're making the figure (as rotated)
too wide.

(incidentally, there was probably a warning from latex about the float
being too big; most latex ides will hide such "confusing" stuff from
you ... which is why i've never taken to them.)

so: do you want the figure to jut into the margins? or do you want it
smaller, so that it fits on the page (\small at the start of the
environment does that).
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

[Antonius]

> however, the float system won't place things that are too wide for the
> page; when that happens, *all* subsequent environments are pushed to
> the end of the document.  the fact that the behaviour is dependent on
> the skip value says (to me) that you're making the figure (as rotated)
> too wide.

Thanks for the help, Robin. Your supposition turned to be right. Not
only the subsequent floats, but also the wrongly sized one itself are
put in the end. I was setting:
height=0.93/textheight,
which was to much for vskip>3mm. I thought this setting referred to
the
height of the whole float, including the caption.

> (incidentally, there was probably a warning from latex about the float
> being too big; most latex ides will hide such "confusing" stuff from
> you ... which is why i've never taken to them.)

I am using TexShop, and it outputs a lot of warnings, although I
indeed
couldn't find anything concerning too big a float.

> so: do you want the figure to jut into the margins?  or do you want it
> smaller, so that it fits on the page (\small at the start of the
> environment does that).

With that particular picture — I wanted it to fill the whole page,
even at the
expense of correct aspect ratio. Does the \small command make the
picture
as big as possible to fit without distortion?

Anton