Re: rsvg-view can't display SVG files created by lilypond

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> Attached is an example, the instrument name Violin at the start of
>>> a staff.  By changing the font size down it gets worse, so it
>>> seems to be the bug you are talking about.
>> 
>> Yes.  I suspect that kern values are scaled (and applied) incorrectly.
> 
> From what it's worth, I've filed a librsvg bug report a few days ago
> marked as `critical', without any reply so far.  Sigh...
> 
>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767481

After contacting a librsvg developer by e-mail, I finally got a
reaction.  To summarize: It's not a librsvg bug.  On my platform it
was a too old version of Pango that caused the bad kerning while
displaying SVG files with tools from librsvg (Pango 1.36.8: bad, Pango
1.40.1: OK).

A relevant Wikimedia bug report is

  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40010


    Werner