You mean absolutely positioning it? You can do that with the place function and displacing it with dx/dy from the origin (https://typst.app/docs/reference/layout/place). Example: #place(top + left, dy: 2cm, dx: 4cm, image("image.png"))
That seems usable for manual layout, but it looks painful to use to place images without knowing exactly where they might end up on a page. I reuse my LaTeX code to make volumes of books, and I never touch the code. It's fire and forget for me, which this does not seem to solve.
Parameterize! That's a new word I didn't know. It adequately describes how I typeset my books, and I must not be alone. The ability to tell LaTeX to drop a picture around here, to the best of its ability, with the possibility of moving it down a paragraph or two if it doesn't fit is vital for me.
I think that's a missing feature of Typst yes, to have figures be either "here" or "top next page" automatically, with that priority. It can't do that.
The confusing part was that this has nothing to do with the images of this coffee stain package, because they are foreground/background and can be placed freely on the page (any corner or any custom offset from any corner; i.e from top left corner you can use page coordinates).
The coffee stains overlay/underlay text, so no layout problems at all.
But the dx/dy arguments also take percentages besides absolut lengths. I still don't get what the the other poster means by that fundamental limitation. I think they're confused about absolute positioning of background images vs floating figures. But typst has the analog setting of `[htbp]`, so the same "fire and forget" workflow is possible.
(author of the project here) we tried extensively [1], but unfortunately concluded that obtaining consistent outputs across various platforms, not to mention across different versions of the same browser, is not feasible at present -- if you want a nicely typeset PDF document, use the real LaTeX (or an alternative such as Typst).
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=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
- NVM subsystem reliability has been degraded
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x04
Temperature: 29 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 134%
Data Units Read: 646,194,436 [330 TB]
Data Units Written: 642,615,704 [329 TB]
Host Read Commands: 6,646,415,427
Host Write Commands: 5,882,338,165
Controller Busy Time: 34,784
Power Cycles: 86,652
Power On Hours: 4,505
Unsafe Shutdowns: 1,060
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 932
