My gosh it's that simple. I feel laughably stupid right now.
On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 11:28:26 (-0500), DoubleFelix wrote:
>
> > Felix, I’m curious what you mean by cropping the file. Sounds to me like
> > you are trying to just write a small snippet of music, maybe a few
> > measures, and not have the output flooded by whitespace all around the size
> > of an A4 paper? This is also similar to what I was using lilypond for and
> > there are ways to do this without any external apps.
> >
>
> Actually this is exactly what I'm trying to do. My current setup uses a
> python library called svgpathtools to get the bounding box, then I do some
> basic manipulation of the width, height, and viewbox parameters to trim all
> of the excess whitespace out. Although I am very interested in how you can
> do this without any additional utilities.
I thought this ought to be very simple.
The attached are shamelessly plundered from
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2021-01/msg00075.html
(There will be files generated, with names not including ".cropped.",
that need to be thrown away.)
Cheers,
David.