Re: GSoC Proposal - SVG Export

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 09:22 -0500, Paul Morris wrote:
> Hi Carl and everyone,
> 
> On 12/2/18 8:02 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > We used to have black be the color of the glyphs.  We made a very
> > specific and intentional move from black to currentColor.  And it
> > was an improvement, IMO.  That is why I feel strongly about moving
> > away from currentColor.
> 
> currentColor sounds like the right default.
what seems strange is that there seems to be no concept of "backgound
color" in SVG (logical in a way as SVG is about things you can draw)
allowing for the possibility of drawing white on white.
>   It also seems reasonable to 
> allow the user to override that default and set it to black or
> another 
> color, depending on their use case.  Maybe that's already possible?  
yes, you add stuff to the LilyPond input to color everything explicitly
black. IIRC you can specify extra stuff to be included from the command
line too.

Richard