So I have my Ubuntu VM setup and per the link from Jean, I've ran autogen,
but when I try to do "../configure --enable-cairo-backend", it says
"configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH". How should I
fix this?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 2:57 PM Silvain Dupertuis <
silvain-dupert...@bluewin.ch> wrote:

> It'll be interesting to be able to ouput SVG directly to get snippet which
> can be integrated into other documents.
>
> Actually, one can get SVG files using Inkscape : import the PDF file
> (using PopplerCairo orption),  edit at will, select parts, crop, etc. and
> save as SVG.
>
> This is what I did for this experimental page
> <https://math.silvain-dupertuis.org/musique/Test-audition-fr%C3%A9quences.html>.
> I used one LilyPond file, produced one PDF page output, which I edited with
> Inkscpae to cut it into 3 SVG files to include in my HTML page.
>
> On the other side, you can put LilyPond code into OOoLilyPond extension
> for LibreOffice. It produces SVG code (and you can save the image as SVG),
> and these images can be used directly in the OpenDocument file to include
> them into some textual explanation...
>
> I would be interested in a web extension which would interpret directly
> Lilypond code into SVG files, it that is possible...
>
> *Silvain*
>
> Le 18.07.22 à 20:33, David Wright a écrit :
>
> 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  can
> do this without any additional utilities.
>
> I thought this ought to be very simple.
>
> The attached are shamelessly plundered 
> fromhttps://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.
>
>
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