Fwd: Re: Difficulties encountered while making snippets (to be used as musical quotations inside an article)

[Ed Gordijn]

Hi Jean-Luc,

I don't have a true Lilypond answer but.

Inkscape sets the bounding box default to the drawing-area, so I gues that you only had to open the svg and save it as eps. If thats true than you are fine with Inkscape. Did you know that you can use Inkscape on the command line.
You can add this to to Lilypond batch file to convert the svg to eps.

*****snippet_eps.bat ********************************
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"C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-windows.exe" -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts %1 %2 %3 %4
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"c:\program files (x86)\inkscape\inkscape.exe"  "%~n1.svg" --export-eps="%~n1.eps"

I had to guess where inkscape is located on your computer, so make sure this path is correct.

I couldn't test this, I haven't Lilypond running on Windows.

Greetings, Ed