Re: Posisitioning some text at a given offset?

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From: Peter Somlo
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 00:00

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leachbj@leopard.cs.latrobe.edu.au (Bernard James Leach) wrote:

>Hi All,

>I've been trying to get LaTeX to position some text at an absolute
>position, but I just cant seem to get it there!

>I need to be able to put a section of text in a specific location
>so that it shows through a 'window' in the cover.

>The window is 10.5cm by 5.3cm positioned 15.5cm down the page and
>5.5cm right of the left hand edge of the page.

>Any suggestions?

>--
>Bernard Leach                    LaTrobe Uni Melbourne Australia
>leachbj@cs.latrobe.edu.au        http://www.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~leachbj/

Have U tried \hspace{...}?

Peter
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