Re: glyph-path-regexp in SVG output is overly strict

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Jonas

On 21/02/2020 11:33, Simon Tatham wrote:
> Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:
> > looking at https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5779/ and
> > the grammar you linked, I think the regular expression is also missing
> > '+Aa,'. Does it make sense to fuse attached patch?
> The idea looks sensible to me, but I think you've made a mistake in the
> regular expression syntax. The character '-' has to appear immediately
> after the open bracket, otherwise it's taken to be the punctuation in a
> range such as "A-Z". So the character class
> [+-MmZzLlHhVvCcSsQqTtAa0-9,.Ee\n ] will match (at least) any character
> between '+' and 'M'.
>
> If you start the brackets with [-+Mm...] instead of [+-Mm...] then I
> think it does what you intended.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon

I am not sure if this will update the tracker as Simon would have to 
have the correct rights (he only contributes occasionally like this so 
probably won't be interested in general LP development) the point is 
that I may have to cut/paste his reply into the tracker if this is the 
case so others can follow.

James