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I'm aware that I can set the paper size manually. But I want the
sheet to be cropped exactly where the last staff ends, and I don't
want to set the paper size for each score individually.
The command mentioned does exactly what I want for
png, as I already noted in the first post:
lilypond -dbackend=eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts --png Dateiname.ly
But there's no command for svg on the same manual
page.
Another suggestion: try using
lilypond-book-preamble.ly (to be found
in INSTALL_DIR/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/ly/), but with
'svg instead of 'eps in the fourth-last line.
And it always helps if you give an example file to work with.
Yours, Simon