SVG style and contributing barrier to entry

[Patrice Levesque]

Hi!

I just discovered that the “style” tag created inside svg output uses the wrong syntax, e.g.

<style text="style/css">

Should be:

<style type="text/css">

Reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/styling.html#StyleElement

A trivial one-line patch to fix this (based on git master):

diff --git a/scm/framework-svg.scm b/scm/framework-svg.scm
index 0abb430fe3..07d4d9e3ec 100644
--- a/scm/framework-svg.scm
+++ b/scm/framework-svg.scm
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
        `(viewBox . ,(ly:format "~4f ~4f ~4f ~4f"
                                (third rest) (fourth rest)
                                (fifth rest) (sixth rest))))
-   (eo 'style #t '(text . "style/css"))
+   (eo 'style #t '(type . "text/css"))
    "<![CDATA[
 tspan { white-space: pre; }
 "))

Wanting to submit this patch, I've looked at the LilyPond Contributor's guide¹, and frankly, I'm amazed by the height of the barrier to entry:

• I'd have to sign up with Google (surprising for a GNU project) and create an account there, with all the privacy implications that goes with it.

• I'd have to create a Sourceforge account, then send an e-mail to a human to ask for write permission to the bug tracker.

• I'd have to install a tool (git-cl), then configure the Sourceforge account to grant that tool access, then configure git-cl.

I don't expect to become a LilyPond developer in this lifetime, so the above represents an investment I'm not willing to make.

The other option — subscribe to yet another mailing list (bug-lilypond) that I'll need to use for a very limited time span and that will spam me with bug reports I don't care about until I unsubscribe — feels awkward to me.

I understand the limited resources the LilyPond team can count on and that dealing with spam wastes lots of precious time. Still, I believe there must be a smoother way to help with the project that doesn't involve such intense commitment.

Sorry for the rant, I *love* LilyPond and I've been a faithful user for years, but I can't help but think the above processes likely prevent involvement from irregular contributors like me.

Have a nice day,

1) https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/contributor-big-page.html

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