On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:31 PM David Wright <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue 05 Jan 2021 at 19:05:30 (-0500), Trevor Bača wrote:
> > I love the functionality for cropped SVGs! (Added back in 2019, or around
> > then?)
> >
> > Question: it appears that cropped multisystem SVGs remove all whitespace
> > between systems. Is this supposed to happen?
>
> I think that removing all the margins is the functionality "crop" is
> supposed to add to LP. To generate the equivalent cropped and packed
> image without this facility would be quite tedious to do (unless
> someone has a trick for doing it?).
>
> > %%% BEGIN %%%
> > […]
> > %%% END %%%
> >
> > Called with ...
> >    lilypond -dbackend=svg -dcrop test.ly
> > ... produces test.cropped.svg as attached here.
> >
> > Screenshot:
> > […]
> >
> > Seems like cropping should be around the edges of the image (rather than
> > between systems)?
>
> If you just want to crop the whole page image, you can do that easily
> at the end of a normal run with the usual utilities. If you require
> LP to set the entire score on a single page, just use a very long
> custom page (as in NR §4.1.2: width, then length).
>

I'm sorry; I don't understand.

What I want Lily to do: remove whitespace from the *edges* of an SVG.

What Lily actually does when -dcrop is set: removes whitespace from the
edges *and from between all systems* of an SVG.

So my question is: is Lily supposed to remove whitespace from *between*
systems when -drop is set?


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Trevor Bača
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