Re: -dbackend=svg ... warning: missing stencil expression `embedded-ps'

[josé henrique padovani]

Em 04/06/10 17:01, Patrick McCarty escreveu:
> 2010/6/4 josé henrique padovani<address@hidden>:
>    
> > I am trying to generate svg files of my score, where I use some \postscript
> > markups. Everything goes ok, except those markups...
> > I get this warning and the svg file comes without the postcript drawings...
> > "warning: missing stencil expression `embedded-ps'"
> >
> > Is this a bug? If not, is there some work-around?
> >      
> It's not a bug.  :-)
>
> The \postscript command is one of the few commands that uses native
> PostScript code in the output.  Since SVG doesn't support embedded
> PostScript, there is no easy way to support \postscript in the SVG
> backend.
>
> If your PostScript code is simple enough, you could try trying
> creating custom figures with the 'embedded-svg routine.  This permits
> entering native SVG code that can be used with the SVG backend.  For
> an example, see this code:
>
>    http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/svg/src/embedded-svg/embedded-svg.ly
>
> Note that 'embedded-svg will not work with the PostScript/PDF output.
>
> Another option is to use the 'path routine.  This isn't documented yet
> and is a little cumbersome to use, but you can find an example that
> uses 'path in this snippet:
>
>    http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=623
>
> In other words, there is no *easy* workaround... yet.
>
> -Patrick
>
>    
Thank you for the tips Patrick... (I'm new to lilypond with svg...)
I will take a look on the path routine.

josé

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