Aligning a textblock

Question

For a titlepage, I want to add a text at a specific place. Now, the textpos package provides such an option, but when I specfiy something like

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\usepackage[a4paper, left=1.75cm, right=1.75cm, top=2cm, bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{textblock*}{7cm}(1.75cm, \dimexpr\textheight-15cm\relax)
    Your specific text goes here. It will be 15cm above the bottom of the page and have a left margin of 1.75cm. The width is 7cm.
\end{textblock*}


\end{document}

then the top of the box is 15cm above the bottom of the page. However, I want the bottom of the textblock to always be 15cm above the bottom of the page, so that when I add text to the block, the last line always stays in the same place. How can I do this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '23 at 19:10

The textpos documentation says at page 6

You may give an optional argument to the {textblock} environment, specifying which point in the box is to be placed at the specified point:

\begin{textblock}{⟨hsize⟩}[⟨ho⟩,⟨vo⟩](⟨hpos⟩,⟨vpos⟩)
text...
\end{textblock}

The coordinates ⟨ho⟩ and ⟨vo⟩ are fractions of the width and height of the text box, respectively, and state that the box is to be placed so that the reference point (⟨ho⟩,⟨vo⟩) within the box is to be placed at the point (⟨hpos⟩,⟨vpos⟩) on the page. The default specification is [0,0], indicating the top left of the box; the argument [0,1] (for example) would specify the bottom left, and [0.5,0.5] the middle.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\begin{document}
\begin{textblock}{5cm}[0,1](1.75cm, \dimexpr\textheight-15cm\relax)
Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text.
\end{textblock}
\begin{textblock}{5cm}[0,1](8cm, \dimexpr\textheight-15cm\relax)
Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text.
\end{textblock}
\end{document}

Aligning a textblock

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