Re: [Feature Request]: More flexible SVG snippet cropping

[James]

Hello Etienne

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:52:52 -0300
Étienne Beaulé <address@hidden> wrote:

> I might have posted my request to the wrong mailing list. The original
> message is below, but is not quite relevant with some new
> developments.
> 
> I have found the -dpreview option, but has a big limitation as it only
> outputs the first line.
> 
> Looking through the code, my feature seems like in between the two
> existing methods dump-page and dump-preview, found in
> scm/framework-svg.scm. The little stumbling block is how both methods
> are invoked separately: output-framework or output-preview-framework,
> both supplying different arguments, the main difference being
> "stensil" that is required for calculating the viewbox, but is not in
> dump-page.
> 
> Would it be possible for the two methods to be merged, so that
> there's an option for cropping on pages that are not just previews
> (and on multi-page scores)? (Or if a third method could be made...)
> 
> If someone could add this feature, it would be very useful for my
> work, and for Lilypond's prominence on Wikipedia.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Étienne Beaulé (Ebe123 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Ebe123/>)
> address@hidden

I have created https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5165 for
this request.

Regards

James