Re: -dbackend=svg and -dpreview not compatible

[Patrick McCarty]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2009/5/27 Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>:
>
>> Well, I added it to the SVG Backend wiki page, and Issue 755 now has a
>> link to this page, so that's good enough for me.
>
> Should we care about -dpreview combined with other backends though?  I
> realize it's nonsensical to set it in combination with the null and
> scm backends, but they also cause LilyPond to crash, so it might be
> better either to add dummy output-preview-framework functions
> (possibly with a warning message) or filter unsupported backends in
> Paper_book::output ().

I think it would be nicer to filter the unsupported backends in
Paper_book::output () and issue a warning too.

I'll look at this soon.

Thanks,
Patrick