Re: Lilypond SVG output

[Graham Percival]

If you haven't added this to LSR already, could you do so?  You can add 
the script (and usage instructions) as a comment to the snippet.

Cheers,
- Graham


Benjamin Esham wrote:
> [cc'ing to the list]
>
> Vivian Barty-Taylor wrote:
>
> > Dear Benjamin and Nick,
> >
> > This was just to let you know that I've got fixing the Lilypond SVG 
> > output down to three "replace" operations in EMacs.
> >
> > Editing the SVG file you replace:
> >
> > 1: all occurrences of "feta-alphabet20" with "Emmentaler"
> > 2: all occurrences of "font-family:Century" with "font-family:Century 
> > Schoolbook L
> > 3: all occurrences of "font-family:L" with "font-family:Century 
> > Schoolbook L"
> >
> > The only output which remains incorrect is italic font type, which I 
> > haven't found any way of fixing - the SVG file seems to be correct, 
> > the font file is there, as far as I can see, but it always shows as 
> > Roman.
> >
> > It would be perfectly feasible (I suppose) just to make a parser 
> > which was triggered by the writing of the SVG file by Lilypond which 
> > corrected these mistakes.
> >
> > I'm not fluent enough in any language to write this, but maybe one of 
> > you is?
>
> Hi Vivian,
>
> Thanks for the info!  I wrote the following file to be used with the 
> sed tool:
>
> s/feta-alphabet[0-9]+/Emmentaler/g
> s/font-family:Century/font-family:Century Schoolbook L/g
> s/font-family:L/font-family:Century Schoolbook L/g
>
> Call this with "sed -Ef lilyfix.sed lilyfile.svg > lilyfile_fixed.svg".
>
> I did have to make one change, which was to generalize the expression 
> for feta-alphabet to work with other sizes.  This sed script has to be 
> run manually from the command line after each time you call lilypond; 
> I found that to be a pain, so I wrote a shell script called lilysvg, 
> which looks mostly like this (full paths are omitted for brevity):
>
> #!/bin/sh
> .../lilypond -bsvg -o /tmp/lilysvg $1.ly && sed -Ef .../fix.sed 
> /tmp/lilysvg.svg > $1.svg
>
> Call it with "lilysvg lilyfile", being sure to leave off the ".ly" of 
> the filename.
>
> Thanks again for the information on this!  I've now used LilyPond to 
> create SVG files of some music snippets for Wikipedia—you can see a 
> small gallery at 
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bdesham/Images#Musical_images>.
>
> HTH,
> --Benjamin D. Esham
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