Re: rsvg-view can't display SVG files created by lilypond

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 12:57 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >>> >> However, there's still a nasty scaling bug that completely ruins
> >>> >> text positioning at larger magnification values.  Sigh.
> >>> > 
> >>> > Is *this* a bug in librsvg, or another LilyPond output problem?
> >>> 
> >>> It's definitely a bug in librsvg AFAICS, cf.
> >>> 
> >>>   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65703
> >> 
> >> I see on this page that there is a mention of "Fixed in 2.40.13"
> >
> > I think this is only partially correct, cf.
> >
> >   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65703#1981688
> >
> >> Do you happen to know if we could usefully upgrade Denemo to use
> >> librsvg 2.40.13 (it always involves quite a bit of work upgrading
> >> versions so I thought I'd ask first)
> >
> > Sorry, I can't help here.  Regarding librsvg, I'm an ordinary user,
> > not acquainted with SVG at all.
> 
> Well, we are not in the market for SVG compliance testing.  If there are
> reasonably simple changes we can make to LilyPond in order to
> avoid/sidestep triggering this librsvg bug,

I don't know about *this* bug, but I did test out replacing currentColor
with "black" (in quotes) in the LilyPond source code and it worked fine;
that seems to me not only a simple but also a fairly sensible change.

Richard