Re: [XeTeX] Xetex equiv to luatex's \directlua{}

[Philip Taylor (RHUoL)]

maxwell wrote: I'm just finishing up a project that involved typesetting text in several languages, while outputting an XML file that defined in X/Y coordinates the position and size of the bounding box surrounding each line of text in the PDF.  [...] [I]s there any way I could have done something similar using xetex?  That is, called another programming language to output box positions and sizes.  I suppose it's possible to write to an XML file in xetex natively, but I'm not sure how I could get the positions and sizes of boxes.  Is it possible that these three PdfTeX/XeTeX primitives might help : \pdfsavepos Saves the current location of the page in the typesetting stream. \pdflastxpos Retrieves the horizontal position saved by \pdfsavepos. \pdflastypos Retrieves the vertical position saved by \pdfsavepos. Philip Taylor

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