On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 12:28 -0500, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > Richard, > > Fixed -- sent to lily list. Also, I mistyped -- one must know "points" > and not pixels to use embedded postscript like this. I did some > exploration last night on how that works trying to setup boxes that > work on left/right margins at .75" (.75 * 72 points = 54 points), and > top/bottom margins at 1.25" (1.25 * 72 points = 90 points) and though > I did get a box, its right/top edges are not correct. So, still > working on it. I do now understand your postscript code and what it > does. I found a very nice introduction > (http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/postscript/) that gave me the > information I needed. > > Q: how did you determine the point values you used?
Trial and error I suspect :( Richard > Regards, > > Guy > > On 4/7/2017 3:55 AM, Richard Shann wrote: > > > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 16:11 -0500, Guy Stalnaker wrote: > > > I thank you because you answered by question. > > It seems this didn't get posted to the mailing list, which would be a > > shame as this reply seems to be the one that solved your problem. > > > > > This might be > > > worth an LSR, because it can be used to "draw" a box around anything > > > as > > > long as one knows page dimensions by pixels. > > It could be that there is nothing like this in the LSR - I *think* the > > gsave ... grestore thing was something I devised when customizing > > Nicholas Sceaux's title page work, so it could be a trick that is not > > widely known... > > > > Richard > > -- > "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and > end of human existence." ― Aristotle _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
