Re: lilypond and SVG output problem caused by an &

[Patrick McCarty]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:05 AM, wjm <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have been having a problem with certain SVG files failing to open in
> Inkscape.
> The attached file compiles correctly and produces the expected PDF result
> but when generating an SVG file the result seems to be corrupt and won't
> open in Inkscape.
> However, after some considerable time and a lot of muttering, I found that
> the problem was caused by having an ampersand ( & ) in the text of the
> header. (Don't enquire about the pathways I had to follow, or about the type
> of muttering indulged in!)
> Opening the SVG file in a text editor (Gedit) showed the & highlighted in
> red. Deleting it and saving the file produced an SVG which opened ok in
> Inkscape.
> An & was added by editting the relevant piece of text in Inkscape. The
> resultant SVG file then was seen to have &amp; where the & used to be
> I did a search to see if this had been noticed by others but could find no
> reference... I hope this is of use to all you out there.

Thanks a lot for the report.

This will be fixed in version 2.13.29.

Regards,
Patrick