Hi Valentin, Thank you for the info. But I have a hard time entering the file path name. When I ran lilypond through frescobaldi v2.3.3, I got an error - see at the end of the lily code. I have no idea what "ice-9 format" is. Shalom, Ming.
\version "2.23.3" \markup { \general-align #Y #DOWN { \epsfile #X #20 #"c:\User\yming tsang\Documents\SNIPPET\Untitled_draw-squibble-1.eps" % \epsfile #Y #20 #"Untitled_draw-squibble-1.eps" } } E <2>rror message ..................................... Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.23.3 [Untitled]... Processing `C:/Users/YMINGT~1/AppData/Local/Temp/frescobaldi-o_s4xv8r/tmps19cuu1_/ document.ly' Parsing... C:/Users/YMINGT~1/AppData/Local/Temp/frescobaldi-o_s4xv8r/tmps19cuu1_/document.ly:7:6 <0>: error: GUILE signaled an error for the expression beginning here # "c:\User\yming tsang\Documents\SNIPPET\Untitled_draw-squibble-1.eps" C:/LilyPond_2-23-3/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/lily.scm:973:21 <1>: In procedure simple-format in expression (ly:parse-file file-name): C:/LilyPond_2-23-3/usr/share/lilypond/current/scm/lily/lily.scm:973:21 <2>: FORMAT: Unsupported format option ~1 - use (ice-9 format) instead Exited with return code 1. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:27 PM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > Hello Ming! > > Just put the name of the file either as absolute path or as relative path > to > your lilypond file instead of context-example.eps. > > The sytax for \epsfile is > \epsfile axis size path > Where axis is the axis for scaling, size is the size of the end result > along > this axis and path is the path to the file. > > Cheers, > Valentin > > Am Mittwoch, 1. September 2021, 22:17:13 CEST schrieb ming tsang: > > Dear lilyponders, > > How can I specify the eps file that will be recognized by the \markup - > re > > below lilypond code? The eps file is in my computer folder. > > Shalom, > > Ming > > > > \markup { > > \general-align #Y #DOWN { > > \epsfile #X #20 #"context-example.eps" > > \epsfile #Y #20 #"context-example.eps" > > } > > , -- ming (lyndon) tsang