My gosh it's that simple. I feel laughably stupid right now. On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 1:33 PM David Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >
