Re: eps backend in latest master

[Kevin Barry]

Following up on this with a solution based on Han-Wen's comments in that issue:

I can replace `#(ly:set-option 'backend 'eps)` with:
```
#(ly:set-option 'separate-page-formats 'eps,png,pdf)
#(ly:set-option 'use-paper-size-for-page #f)
```
And that restores the old behaviour.

I'm not sure if it should be socialised or not. The previous way of
doing it didn't make any more sense.

Kevin


On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 at 17:14, Kevin Barry <barrykp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you that definitely looks related! I have posted a comment there.
>
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 21:35, Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Le 15/08/2022 à 18:12, Kevin Barry a écrit :
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I used to have a style file for creating musical examples (typically, for
>> > printed books and the like) that handily produced cropped images by setting
>> > the backend to eps (and removing margins and headers and footers). I
>> > noticed that this has stopped working in latest master and I am unable to
>> > exactly replicate the behaviour. The crop option does not preserve the
>> > space between systems so it's no good. Is there another way to get the old
>> > behaviour?
>> >
>> > Kevin
>>
>>
>> Possibly the same problem as
>> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6235
>>
>> I never took the time to understand all the backend options, there are
>> many of them and they've evolved a lot in 2.23.x… I would say that some
>> documentation section comparing them would be welcome.
>>