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callegar / LaTeX-draftwatermark

The "draftwatermark" package extends LaTeX providing a means to add a textual, light gray watermark on every page or on the first page of a document. Typical usage may consist in writing words such as "DRAFT" or "CONFIDENTIAL" across document pages. The package may remind in some sense "draftcopy" by Dr. Juergen Vollmer, but its implementation is much lighter (as the reduced code footprint shows) and does not rely on postscript specials, making the package fully compatible with pdfLaTeX. The package depends on package "everypage" by the same author.
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Add support for watermark position. #11

Closed a5nI closed 9 years ago

a5nI commented 9 years ago

This support was added to provide an arXiv like watermark on the left side of the first page. From a few posts in stackexchange, it appears others were looking to do the same thing. This was by far the easiest path to get there.

callegar commented 9 years ago

Looks good! Thanks! I only wonder if SetWatermarkCenterPos (taking a couple of values as in \SetWatermarkCenterPos{1cm}{2cm} or \SetWatermarkCenterPos{1cm, 2cm} can be easier to remember and shorter than SetWatermarkHorCenter and VerCenter. What is your opinion?

a5nI commented 9 years ago

I wasn't quite sure which is the more LaTeX way of doing this. In my case, I only need to use the HorCenter{}. I'm probably wrong in assuming most uses will be either moving the text right/left at 90deg or up/down. I'm new to TeX, so wasn't sure how defaults are handled in 2 argument functions. Another slight downside(IMO), is when shifting vertically, both args need to be specified.(Assuming the second arg is optional). With all that said, I think you have the better intuition on what is more preferred in the TeX world, so I can easily change the interface. Between the two you mentioned, for some reason the \SetWatermarkCenterPos{}{} is more appealing.