Re: GSoC Proposal - SVG Export

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/1/18, 1:22 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Richard Shann" 
<address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> wrote:

    It is probably a very small thing, but it would be good if you could
    improve the SVG output with regard to the use of "current color" which
    Lily outputs as the default foreground color rather than black. There
    was a plea recently for this:
        
    From:       d_l <address@hidden>
    To: address@hidden
    Subject:    Request PATCH to ensure LilyPond SVG compatibility with
    Scribus
    Date:       Thu, 11 Oct 2018 06:56:34 -0700 (MST) (11/10/18 14:56:34)
    
    and others earlier. Denemo has to work around this quirk - the problem
    being the "current color" is frequently white, the same as the
    background...

I hope he will not change the use of current color in SVG.  That is exactly 
according to the SVG spec.  The SVG viewer, not the SVG creator, is responsible 
for setting current color in CSS, according to the spec that I read. Thus, the 
color is inherited.  This means that LilyPond output plays nice with CSS -- I 
can choose to set my website up with purple text if I want to, and the music 
will be purple too.  Of course, if I want the music to be black, I can do it 
just by changing the CSS -- no need to regenerate the SVG.  In my opinion, this 
is how SVG should behave.

The problem should be fixed in the SVG viewer, IMO.  

Thanks,

Carl