[texhax] current position in output

[Christopher Olah]

Greetings!

> I need a comand that can capture the position like
> \currentpagenumber

Page number and similar are stored as counters in LaTeX. Here's a
useful link in that regard:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-3.html

> Is there any command or way to get the current output position (xy
> coordinate) of things.
...
> \xyposition{words or things in there}

As for your first question, I don't know the answer. But I do have a
few ideas on where to get them.

 This sort of thing _should_ be a part of TeX, so you may want to look
at the relevant documentation. I don't have a copy of the TeXbook my
self so I generally reference TeX by Topic which is free and will
likely have the answers your looking for.

 Someone will probably come along with the answer shortly, but if your
in a rush the source code is always the best documentation... Maybe
look at the code for the pspicture environment? It goes and makes
LaTeX jump around on the X and Y axis...

If you are asking because you want to put something at a particular
point on a page, look at \rput from pstricks.


Best of Luck!

Christopher

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Christopher Olah
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