Re: Cropped SVG Output

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno gio 15 ott 2015 alle 22:10, David Sankel <address@hidden> 
ha scritto:
> I'm writing a Lilypond plugin for Sphinx and I'd like to use the SVG 
> output
> to embed the lilypond output into html files. Compared to PNG 
> embedding,
> SVG will allow a single webpage to look crisp on many different 
> devices and
> minimizes the bandwidth necessary on clients.

do you know that someone wrote a lilypond plugin sometime ago (it's on 
bitbucket)?
probably not maintained anymore

> The problem I'm running into is that the SVG output option produces a 
> SVG
> file with a length and width of the entire page that I'm trying to 
> render.
> The PNG output, on the other hand, crops the score to the area with 
> visible
> elements on it. Of course, when embedding, I'm looking for a visible 
> area
> crop. Does anyone know if a cropped SVG output is possible?

yes, try:

lilypond -dpreview -dbackend=svg test.ly