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From: little@odin.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Absolute positioning in TeX
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Date: 10 Dec 88 00:35:03 GMT
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  I am looking for a way to temporarily move to an absolute position on
  the page, print an hbox or vbox, then go back to where I was
  originally.  Is this possible?  Is there a way to do it that would work
  in both LaTeX and TeX?  I am hoping to use this capability in conjunction
  with psfigtex and a postscript bitmap to print letterheads on
  documents.  I need to be able to get way up near the upper left corner
  of the page, outside of the normal margins.  Is there a way to tell
  \psfig to print at an absolute position?

  Barring the above, is there a way to get the current position in TeX
  and LaTeX?  Then maybe I can do a relative move to where I need to go.
  I can't seem to find what I'm looking for in either the TeX or LaTeX book, 
  and hope someone can point me to the relevant pages.

  Thanks.

		Glenn Little
		little%cs@ucsd.edu