Re: Piping contents of SVG directly to stdout

[William]

Thanks for this, David. As unfortunately my method (set \header{tagline=##f} 
and run lilypond -dbackend=eps —png file.ly) doesn’t work for SVGs. 

-William

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> On Jul 18, 2022, at 14:36, David Wright <lilylis@lionunicorn.co.uk> 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.
> <one.ly>
> <one.cropped.svg>
> <many.ly>
> <many.cropped.svg>