Re: [PATCH] SVG backend: Output a single SVG file for each page

[Patrick McCarty]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:09:35AM -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:44:17AM +0200, Valentin Villenave wrote:
> > 2009/8/6 Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>:
> > > Any comments or suggestions are welcome.  This patch is one of the
> > > final steps towards producing SVG output that is both valid and
> > > compatible across all user agents I have tested (Inkscape, Firefox,
> > > etc.)
> > 
> > Though single-page SVG output is a sensible default, perhaps we could
> > keep the multi-page SVG output as a -d option just in case some users
> > might indeed want to have one single output file?
> 
> Just to clarify...
> 
> I think it's okay to provide a -d option for a single-file output,
> instead of one-file-per-page output.

Sorry to bug you again, Valentin.  :-)

I'm starting to dislike this idea after all... At least for now.

SVG is a vector graphics format, so there should only be *one* page of
output per file.  If we want to provide an option to generate only one
SVG file, this option should apply to the PS, EPS, and PNG output as
well.  So this would be a different feature request, IMO.

For example, if you have a multiple-page score, and use the PS backend
to generate PNG output, you would get the following output if the file
is named `test.ly':

    test-page1.png
    test-page2.png
    test-page3.png
    etc...

Does anyone else have any thoughts about this, or the patch itself?

Thanks,
Patrick