Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning

[Kevin Cole]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 12:09 PM Jean Abou Samra  wrote:

Try the Cairo backend, adding -dbackend=cairo on the command line or
> #(ly:set-option 'backend 'cairo) in the file. It is partly because of font
> issues like this that the legacy SVG backend is usually inferior to the new
> Cairo backend.
>

That just leads to:

fatal error: compiled without CAIRO_BACKEND

which means I will have to install and keep track of yet another version of
LilyPond -- this one compiled from scratch...

(I begin to understand why there needs to be 15 versions of documentation
now.)

SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning

[Kevin Cole]

% SVG output looks more like "English lyrics by ROBERTB RYAN"
% with the whitespace in the wrong place, after the "B" in "Bryan"
% rather than before.
%
% PDF output produces correctly "English lyrics by ROBERT BRYAN"
%

\version "2.24.2"
\language "english"

\header {
  poet = \markup { "English lyrics by " \smallCaps "Robert Bryan" }
}

Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning

[Kevin Cole]

With the symbolic link solution, I'm "content" on the command line. As
to Frescobaldi, I just tried again with the same results.

> Le dimanche 27 août 2023 à 19:30 -0400, Kevin Cole a écrit :

>> Mixed results... So, this is a "thanks, but..."
>>
>> The Frescobaldi .deb suggested by those instructions is 3.2. The Flatpak is 
>> 3.3.
>>
>> Using the Flatpak Frescobaldi, clicking the pull-down menu "Lilypond -> 
>> Engrave (Custom)" and explicitly selecting SVG is ignored. Frescobaldi 
>> produces a PDF. (Maybe there's some non-obvious way to use the pull-down 
>> menu?)

> It works for me.
>
> To be sure, you're engraving each time from this "custom" menu, right? This 
> menu is *not* a set of options that are used every time you compile in the 
> "normal" way. If you want to make Frescobaldi compile all files into SVGs, 
> you should set that in Edit > Preferences > LilyPond Preferences > Default 
> Output Format.

Odd. Yes, I understood that it wasn't a permanent setting... I tried
it twice and both times it gave me a PDF. Maybe I missed something.
(All I did was

> LilyPond -> Engrave (Custom)
> Output format: SVG
> Engraving mode: Publish
> [X] Delete intermediate output files
> [X] Run Lilypond with English messages
> [Run LilyPond]

(I tried it with Engraving mode: Preview as well.)

The output was:

> Starting lilypond 2.24.2 [cruiscin_lan.ly]...
> Processing 
> `/home/kjcole/gits/websites/pages.codeberg.org/dmc_songbook/source/cruiscin_lan.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music...[8]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Interpreting music...[8][16][24][32]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Interpreting music...
> MIDI output to `cruiscin_lan.midi'...
> Calculating line breaks...
> Fitting music on 1 page...
> Layout output to `cruiscin_lan.pdf'...
> Success: compilation successfully completed
> Completed successfully in 0.8".

Examining the output file, it shows that it is, indeed, a PDF.