General ⇒ Determine the position (coordinates) of a word

[fibofreak]

Hi,

I want to create an EPS file from a (short) LaTeX document (no problem so far) and then know the position of a specific word, i.e. if I have

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This is a \storeposition{house}.

$a+b = c$

There is more about it.

then LaTeX should store coordinates in a textfile, from which I can reproduce the position of the word "palace" in the EPS image.

Certainly TeX will somewhere compute this position, but I don't know how to grab it and put it into a source where I can use it.

Thank you for any useful ideas!

Fabian

[josephwright]

Take a look at the pdfTeX manual: http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/, in particular the stuff on \pdfsavepos and so forth.

[fibofreak]

Thank you, this should be the key. Together with the zref-Package, the implementation should be possible. I will try asap.

Fabian