Re: bookOutputName still gets "-1" suffix added to SVG file names

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le mercredi 29 mars 2023 à 22:56 -0600, Jeff Olson a écrit :

I've got to generate a thousand+ cropped SVG files with specified file names
from one lilypond compilation, so I'm wrapping each score in a \book with
its own \bookOutputName as in this MWE:

\version "2.24.1"
#(ly:set-option 'backend 'cairo)
#(ly:set-option 'separate-page-formats 'svg)
#(ly:set-option 'use-paper-size-for-page #f)
#(ly:set-option 'point-and-click #f)
\book {
   \bookOutputName  "Foo"
   { f' }
}
\book {
   \bookOutputName  "Abc"
   { a' }
}
\book {
   \bookOutputName  "Bar"
   { b' }
}

But the SVG files all have the extra -1 suffix as though there were additional
files from the same book that would collide:

   32 -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 J None   32199 Mar 29 22:25  Foo-1.svg*
   32 -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 J None   32190 Mar 29 22:25  Abc-1.svg*
   32 -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 J None   32231 Mar 29 22:25  Bar-1.svg*

My MIDI files don't have this problem since they only add a suffix on
subsequent files with the same base name, and there's only one per book.

These "-1" suffices are messing with my URLs for the SVG files,
so I'd appreciate any ideas on how to get rid of them.  Thx.

They are there for good reason. If any of your \books got output on multiple pages, there would indeed be multiple files output.

If you never want separate pages, you should not use separate-page-formats but tall-page-formats.

By the way, in addition to simplifying automation (like lilypond-book), having -1.svg even on the first page makes it possible to use both separate-page-formats and tall-page-formats at the same time.

Jean

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