This is a note to myself but you may find it useful too. Kara Woo asks how she can arrange to have an Org table rotated on the page when she exports it to PDF:
Anyone know if I can specify the placement of a sidewaystable when exporting from #emacs #orgmode? https://t.co/pt7lMtmHtn
— Kara Woo (@kara_woo) February 24, 2016
The answer turns out to be pretty simple but, as usual with LaTeX, it involves swinging the cat around your head the correct number of times. Sometimes you have a table with many columns making it too wide to fit on the page in portrait mode. In those cases, being able to display it in landscape can save the day.