On Thursday 24 January 2002 4:42 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Very nice Herbert. I take it that the Bounding Box inputs can take things > > like "1cm" which would be valid in includegraphics? Why not use an input and > > a choice for the units like Jürgen has done with many of the other dialogs. > > That way we can store the thing as a LyXLength. > > > The coordinates are measured in the traditional typesetting units > "points", where 1 inch = 72 points (1 cm = 28 points). > Yes, we can convert things like 3cm into points, but > I don't know, if its a good idea to support other units??
Well, I don't know either. Remember that we'll end up being able to view and output stuff other than just .eps (pdf output as png etc) A
