Re: \epsfile args

[Mats Bengtsson]

Almost all dimensions in LilyPond are expressed in units of a staff 
space, i.e. the
space between two adjacent staff lines. If you use the default 20pt 
staff size, this
means that the staff space is 5pt. If you make a simple test, you can 
easily verify
that this holds also for the argument to \epsfile.

  /Mats

Michael David Crawford wrote:
> I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the units are Adobe 
> Postscript points.  There are 72 of them per inch.
>
> (Traditional printer points don't fit evenly in an inch; Adobe rounded 
> them.)
>
> thorne wrote:
> > Hi, I have successfully embedded an .eps file in lilypond output, but i
> > am sizing it more or less by eyeball because i don't know what the units
> > are for second (size) argument.  The manual (2.10) just says:
> >
> > ,----
> > | \epsfile axis (number) size (number) file-name (string)
> > |     Inline an EPS image. The image is scaled along axis to size. `----
> >
> > I don't know anything really about .eps format.  Are the units for size
> > just something everyone knows?
>
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