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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: TeX cursor positioning
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Date: 22 Mar 89 18:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Mar 22 12:39:00 1989



I have a question about TeX/LaTex. I want to put bitmap graphics into
LAtex output using a \special. That is no problem, I hacked the
dvijep source. What is a problem, a big one, is getting it positioned
properly. Say I want to position it at the left margin at some
vertical location. I can't find a way to force TeX to tell the dvi file
to send a position command to the dvi file short of putting a character
there. Is there a way to do this? I don't want to have something
actually printed there.

What I have done to kludge a solution is to manufacture a font
with Metafont, containing a copy of the smallest dot from circle10.
I then used a debugger to remove all the one bits from the list
of bits in the .pxl file. Printing this character leaves the
cursor at the point of the character without printing anything. But
I get sick every time I do this. Is there a legal way to do it?

Doug McDonald