Page Layout ⇒ Anchor to a Text Passage or a Figure

[kornaros]

I want to have an anchor on some piece of text or figure. This anchor will inform me about the current position of the anchored element (the current page, the distance from the left side of the page and the distance for the bottom of the page). Is it possible to have this kind of anchors?

Thanks

Charis!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Charis,

for such a purpose I would choose TikZ. Perhaps because I know that package well, there are further ways. With TikZ, I could place a node or a coordinate marker anywhere near a text or a figure, and later refer to it, such as drawing an arrow to it. TikZ provides a current page node, to which we could refer, for example regarding the relation to the page margins.

Stefan

[kornaros]

Dear Stefan_K thanks for you reply! But how could I have some other useful information regarding the EXACT current (vertical and horizontal) position of my anchored element?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

In TikZ there's the calc library for coordinate calculations. If you define a coordinate somewhere in the text, you can calculate with this and with the coordinates of the current page corners.

Stefan