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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label abspos</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Putting things at fixed positions on the page</h3>
+<p/>TeX&rsquo;s model of the world is (broadly speaking) that the author
+writes text, and TeX and its macros decide how it all fits on the
+page. This is not good news for the author who has, from whatever
+source, a requirement that certain things go in exactly the right
+place on the page.
+<p/>There <em>are</em> places on the page, from which things may be hung,
+and two LaTeX packages allow you position things relative to such
+points, thus providing a means of absolute positioning.
+<p/>The <i>textpos</i> package aids the construction of pages from
+&ldquo;blobs&rdquo;, dotted around over the page (as in a poster); you give it
+the location, and it places your typeset box accordingly.
+<p/>The <i>eso-pic</i> defines a &ldquo;shipout picture&rdquo; that covers the
+page. The user may add <code>picture</code>-mode commands to this
+picture, which of course can include box placements as well as the
+other rather stilted commands of <code>picture</code>-mode.
+(<i>Eso-pic</i> requires the services of <i>everyshi</i>, which
+must therefore also be available.)
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+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>eso-pic.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic.zip">macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/eso-pic/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>everyshi.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ms.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ms</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ms.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ms/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>textpos.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos.zip">macros/latex/contrib/textpos</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/textpos/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=abspos">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=abspos</a>
+</body>