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I need to put some symbol/paragraph in specific (x,y) place.

How I can do it?

Is possible to skip this in normal text?

Text is big but in specific place i put some words.

Andrew Swann
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Witold
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1 Answers1

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As Andrew pointed out, the textpos package is designed for this purpose.

This is an example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[showboxes,absolute]{textpos}
\usepackage[step=1cm,arrows=false,firstcolor=white,secondcolor=white]{pagegrid}

\begin{document}

\begin{textblock*}{3cm}(7cm,4cm)
  \raggedright
  \Huge My text
\end{textblock*}

\end{document}

which gives the following result (the image is the left upper portion of the page):

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In the example I've loaded the pagegrid package just to show a 1cm x 1cm grid needed to see the result (you don't need it at all).

As you can see the box is exactly positioned in the point 7cm x 4cm of the page, as specified by the argument (7cm,4cm) of the textblock* environment.

When you're sure that the box containing your text (as specified by the argument {3cm}) is OK, you can remove the option showboxes when loading the package, unless you want to see the box margins.

For more info, have a look at the textpos documentation.

EDIT

Regarding your comment, you can define a new command \putglyph as follows

\newcommand{\putglyph}[3]{%
  \begin{textblock*}{1cm}(#2cm,#3cm)
    \raggedright
    \Huge #1
  \end{textblock*}
}

and then use it in this way

\putglyph{M}{7}{4}

where the first argument is the glyph to position, the second is the X coordinate and the third the Y coordinate.

Alternatively, you can define it as:

\newcommand{\putglyph}[1]{\tempglyph(#1)}
\def\tempglyph(#1,#2,#3){%
  \begin{textblock*}{1cm}(#2cm,#3cm)
    \raggedright
    \Huge #1
  \end{textblock*}
}

and use it with comma-separated arguments:

\putglyph{M,7,4}
karlkoeller
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