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Subject: Coffins and l3draw
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I recently tried to draw a book=E2=80=99s title-page in LaTeX (designed in
SVG, but XeTeX supports the font much better than Inkscape does) and
tried using xcoffins. Correction=E2=80=94I entirely succeeded in using
xcoffins, but I=E2=80=99m not satisfied with how I managed it.

The issue, of course, is as in
<https://medium.com/@literallywords/82eb07effe34#acdc>, placing the
text at some particular place on the page. I ended up measuring the
offset from where I thought the text should be to where it ended up,
figring out which paragraph dimension was causing the change, and
hard-coding this.

I quite understand that this is appropriate for the usual use-case of
coffins, but it did get me wondering: As l3draw is gradually
completed, presumably it will develop nodes like TikZ=E2=80=99s `(current
page.center)`. Is it anticipated that l3draw and coffins will
eventually interoperate sufficiently to base a coffin offset from a
l3draw node?

=E2=80=94Joel C. Salomon

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