>>>>> "Arvid" == Arvid Grøtting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arvid> Laura Conrad <lconrad <at> laymusic.org> writes:
>> Has anyone figured out a way around this?
Arvid> A workaround, yes:
Arvid> For each EPS file, between running lilypond-book and tex,
Arvid> replace the first (and negative) number in the BoundingBox
Arvid> comment with 0.
Thanks, that works.
Arvid> Yes, it's an ugly hack. Here's why it works:
Arvid> Lilypond-book produces EPS files where some point on the left edge of
Arvid> the staff has coordinates (0, 0). The first 0 here would be an ideal
Arvid> candidate for horisontal aligment within the TeX file.
Arvid> Some stuff extends to the left of this: bar numbers, most notably.
I wondered whether this was the problem.
Arvid> Now, I guess lilypond-book could be modified to give an
Arvid> explicit *and deliberately misleading* BoundingBox argument
Arvid> to the \includegraphics command in order to get the correct
Arvid> placement without compromising the EPS file. That would,
Arvid> IMHO, be a better and more permanent solution.
I agree that we need a better solution. Ideally, it would be one that
would have a better connection to the way LaTeX thinks about the
world, but I'd settle for anything that means I don't have to maintain
my script that does your sed.
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