General ⇒ absolute vertical positioning

[metebalci]

Hi,

I am writing my msc thesis and switched to latex from ms word last week. I havent used latex before, however, since I am a programmer, it got used to it easily.

The question I have is I couldnt find out how to do absolute vertical positioning of text measured from top of the page. Suppose I want to write a text 3cm below and 7cm below from top of the page. The vertical space command in latex gives relative positioning (meaning the space between text), right ?

Thank you...

Mete

[Kris]

Hi!

there's a pstricks-package that can do this (pst-abspos), but
it's not implemented into MiKTeX, so You have to install it on
Your own! (http://perce.de/LaTeX/pst-abspos/)

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pst-all}
\usepackage[absolute]{pst-abspos}
\begin{document}
\pstSetAbsoluteOrigin
\pstPutAbs[unit=1cm,position=lb](3,-3){Text with 3cm from top}
\pstPutAbs[unit=1cm,position=lb](3,-7){Text with 7cm from top}
\end{document}

Regards
Kris

[metebalci]

This seems to be what I exactly want. Thank you very much Kris.

Mete