beamerposterfloatspositioningvertical alignment
Is there any command to get current position in text?
What do I mean:
\the\currentposition
text text text text \newline
\the\currentposition
text text text text \newline
\the\currentposition
Output:
0pt
text text text text
12pt
text text text text
24pt
Or even better – how to get actual (x,y) position of some text or enviroment (i.e. top left corner of column or block) in the list?
The adjustbox is what's needed:
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Some text & \adjustbox{valign=t}{\includegraphics[height=3cm,width=4cm]{p}}\\
...
\end{tabular}
With valign=t the picture is lowered in such a way that its final height is similar to the height of the surrounding text (the rest will stick below).
If you want that the top of the figure is on the baseline, use valign=T.
As the author of adjustbox comments, calling
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
the options provided by the package can go directly in the argument of \includegraphics, so
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Some text & \includegraphics[valign=T,height=3cm,width=4cm]{p}}\\
...
\end{tabular}
is good as well. Change the other options for your case.
Might you consider the stackengine package to stack your poster blocks? The "short-stacking" mechanism allows for a constant vertical gap between stacked items. Then, you don't need to worry about absolute positioning.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[usestackEOL]{stackengine}
\newlength\hgap
\hgap=2ex
\setstackgap{S}{2ex}
\begin{document}
\def\blockA{\fbox{\parbox[b]{2in}{Introduction\\\Large This is my text block}}}
\def\blockB{\rule{1.8in}{1.8in}}
\def\blockC{\fbox{\parbox[b]{2in}{Setup\\\Large This is my text block}}}
\def\blockD{\fbox{\parbox[b]{2in}{Results\\\Large This is my text block
in which I share my results}}}
\def\blockE{\rule{.84in}{.84in}\hskip\hgap\rule{.84in}{.84in}}
\def\blockF{\fbox{\parbox[b]{2in}{Conclusions\\\Large This is my text block
in which I share my conclusions}\strut}}
\centering
\Huge Framistats of the 20th Century\\
\footnotesize Prof. Z. Courantloop\\
\Shortstack{\blockA\\ \blockB\\ \blockC}
\hskip \hgap
\Shortstack{\blockD \\ \\ \blockE \\ \\ \blockF}
\end{document}
Best Answer
pdfTeX in PDF mode provide
\pdfsavepos, which stores the current position that can be written to the.auxfile and used the next TeX run. Also XeTeX and LuaTeX provide this features. There are some limitations:Graphics state changes, that do not use the pdfTeX interfaces (
\pdfsetmatrix,\pdfsave,\pdfrestore) interfere with the position recording.Absolute values are not well defined, thus relative values are preferred.
Package
zref-saveposof projectzrefprovides an interface to the positioning feature:Result after two compile runs: