On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 2:29 PM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed 06 Jan 2021 at 11:34:24 (-0500), Trevor Bača wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:31 PM David Wright 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. > > As I said, you run LP as normal, and then trim to taste. So, taking > your example, I ran it with > $ lilypond-2.21.80-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond --svg -dno-point-and-click > Bača.ly > and then edited the first line of Bača.svg, resulting in Bača-trimmed.svg. > The end of the first line is modified from > width="210.00mm" height="297.00mm" viewBox="0 0 119.5016 169.0094"> > to > width="192.00mm" height="297.00mm" viewBox="4.5 0 109.5016 169.0094"> > which I did by inspection. As you use SVG files in your workflow, > I assume you can carry this out more easily and precisely¹ with some > particular tool. (I'm PDF-centric myself.) I only considered X because > I was inspecting the file on a landscape screen (and you didn't remove > the tagline anyway). > > > What Lily actually does when -dcrop is set: removes whitespace from the > > edges *and from between all systems* of an SVG. > > That's right, so that your file contains all the information, > unencumbered by margins, ready for some sort of further processing. > Obviously, I don't know what that will be in your case. > > It reminds me of those PNG files that you find in browsers' cache, > which have a strip or grid of little images that are used internally, > either as a toolbar, or displayed sequentially like a movie. > > > So my question is: is Lily supposed to remove whitespace from *between* > > systems when -d[c]rop is set? > > AIUI yes. But this is policy: I await pronouncements from higher-ups. > > ¹ I believe the modifications need to be kept proportional, in order > to preserve the aspect ratio. > Hi David, I really appreciate the responses, but I'm even more confused than before. When you ran ... $ lilypond-2.21.80-1.linux-64/bin/lilypond --svg -dno-point-and-click Bača.ly ... why didn't you include the -dcrop option? -- Trevor Bača www.trevorbaca.com soundcloud.com/trevorbaca
