Re: \epsfile args

[Michael David Crawford]

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?

Michael David Crawford
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