Multisystem crop bug

[Trevor Bača]

Hi,

Can somebody who interfaces with the issue tracker please open a bug for
Lily's treatment of multisystem cropped images? Full thread is here; a MWE
for the bug can be taken from the first post in the thread:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2021-01/msg00075.html

It appears that what happened in that thread is that the author of the
feature couldn't be convinced that the behavior described in the thread is
a bug.

The behavior is definitely a bug. In short, Lily removes all inter-system
whitespace from cropped images. This means that multisystem crop currently
destroys score layout explicitly specified by users.

A further question was raised in the thread above: should the current
(intersystem-whitespace-removing) behavior be preserved? Perhaps as an
additional command-line option?

Answer: no, the current behavior should be replaced. No user responded to
the above thread asking for the current (intersystem-whitespace-removing)
behavior to be preserved. On the other hand, users continue to appear on
list and ask for a multisystem crop that crops only around the edges of an
image:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2021-04/msg00121.html

It would be great if we can get consensus on this and move forward.
LilyPond's SVG output (and single-system cropping) are truly excellent.
This combination of features has been an incredible boon to users inserting
Lily-generated images on web properties. If we can nudge Lily's multisystem
crop behavior the right direction, then website authors can publish
beautiful multisystem LilyPond output with confidence, too.

Trevor.

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