Place single glyph at a location on the page

Question

I'm looking to use LaTeX to emulate something like the typographic art that people make with letterpress printing. For me, this means that I'd like to be able to position a glyph arbitrarily at some (x,y) position on the page, with some rotation, and in an ideal world I'd like the glyph's center to be at (x,y) and also have it rotate about its center. I'm not so good at Tikz so I haven't tried it, but I guess that will probably be necessary? I'm open to using any packages.

you don't need tikz of course, you could just use the graphics package from the core latex distribution. — David Carlisle, Dec 15 '18 at 17:03
Duplicate? https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/169808/what-are-the-ways-to-position-things-absolutely-on-the-page — Steven B. Segletes, Dec 15 '18 at 17:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '18 at 16:29

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{tikzpagenodes}


\begin{document}


\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay,shift={(current page.south west)}]
\node at (10.23,10.35) {x};
\end{tikzpicture}



\end{document}

answered Dec 15 '18 at 16:29

JPi

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '18 at 17:01

2

This is one way to do it:

\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand{\glyph}[3]{%
\node[shift={#2}, rotate=#3] at (current page.south west) {#1};
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
\glyph{T}{(1,1)}{70}
\glyph{E}{(2,1.5)}{60}
\glyph{S}{(2.7,2)}{30}
\glyph{T}{(3,3)}{10}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

answered Dec 15 '18 at 17:01

hpekristiansen

37,006

works too...... +1 – JPi Dec 15 '18 at 17:50

Place single glyph at a location on the page

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