<div dir="ltr">Sorry, I should have worded my question more carefully...<div>My intention is *not* to get one bounding box for all the characters together, but to get the bounding box coordinates of *each* character in the input text. So if the text I want to render is "$y = x^2$", I'd like to be able to obtain the bbox coordinates of "y", "=", "x" and "2".<div>
<br></div><div>Suggestions? Thanks!</div><div>~R<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:39 AM, William Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:will.adams@frycomm.com">will.adams@frycomm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sep 23, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Ranjith Unnikrishnan wrote:<br>
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In short, do you know of a way to extract the bounding box coordinates of the characters in the output dvi or via some other way that utilizes latex?<br>
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We just had this discussion.<br>
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See the recent thread ``compile to a small PDF''.<br>
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Short answer, put the characters in a box and measure the box.<br>
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Long answer, look at the code for the preview.sty package.<br>
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