On 13/01/2021 18:29, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Perhaps the syntax and functionality of -dcrop could be extended to include: <absent> ie default #f: as now, no cropped output -dcrop ie #t: preserve whitespace, set as one long cropped *page* -dcrop num separate cropped *systems* by num mm of whitespace (mm is already used as the unit of eps-box-padding) So anyone who relies on the current behaviour could just add 0 to their -dcrop option. Transparent strut workarounds could be removed.I vote against this. LilyPond's behaviour is simply broken and should be corrected. People who use struts can also easily set the staff-staff distance to zero (using the standard LilyPond paper variables).
I thought of that. But if the argument is that some people want to generate a SVG that does not contain the spacing information, it is not helping them to replace a value by 0 but to keep the SVG file the same otherwise.
That being said, I am not sure if that isn't what the current implementation of -dcrop in LilyPond is doing and I do not understand the use case of the current -dcrop option. I would tend to think that it is a broken behaviour indeed.
Cheers, — Niols
