Positioning text in the console

There's no  built-in way to position the cursor within the Delphi console window, but it's not particularly hard to use the Windows interface to do it.  

You'll need to add the Windows unit to the Uses statement.
You'll also need a routine to get a 'handle' to the current console window.  This is a pointer which makes sure that the right console window is used.

program helloworld;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

{$R *.res}

uses
  System.SysUtils,Windows;

var
  coords : _COORD;
  chandle : THandle;

//-----------------------------------------
// Get handle to console input
//-----------------------------------------
function GetConInputHandle : THandle;
begin
Result := GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE)
end;
//-----------------------------------------
// Get handle to console output
//-----------------------------------------
function GetConOutputHandle : THandle;
begin
Result := GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
end;

begin
   chandle := GetConOutputHandle();
   coords.X := 10;
   coords.Y := 10;
   setconsolecursorposition(chandle,coords);
   writeln('This is the army mister jones')  ;

   readln;
end.

---

procedure printxy(x,y:integer;s:string);
var
  coords : _COORD;
  chandle : THandle;
begin
   chandle := GetConOutputHandle();
   coords.X := x;
   coords.Y := y;
   setconsolecursorposition(chandle,coords);
   writeln(s);
end;