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.
\new Score { c'1 d'1 e'1 }
\new Score { c'1 \break c'1 \break c'1 } \new Score { d'1 \break d'1 \break d'1 } \new Score { c'1 \break c'1 \break c'1 } \new Score { d'1 \break d'1 \break d'1 } \new Score { c'1 \break c'1 \break c'1 } \new Score { d'1 \break d'1 \break d'1 } \new Score { c'1 \break c'1 \break c'1 } \new Score { d'1 \break d'1 \break d'1 } \new Score { c'1 \break c'1 \break c'1 } \new Score { d'1 \break d'1 \break d'1 }