--max-systems-per-page option

[craigsapp]

It would be useful to have an option called --max-systems-per-page (maxSystemsPerPage). This would allow in particular generating incipits based on the first system of a work, and would otherwise allow extracting separate SVG images for each system (which I can imagine would be useful as well).

Is there currently otherwise a robust way of extracting an incipit? If I make the page height too short, no music will be output. The --spacing-system option is limited to "12", so I cannot force a large distance to the next system, effectively preventing two systems on a page.

[lpugin]

It makes sense to have this option.

[rettinghaus]

For rendering incipits it would be nice to have an option just taking the encoded incipit from the MEI file, so you don’t have to fiddle with an XSLT.

[craigsapp]

That would be good too. Something like

    verovio --incipit

A nice enhancement for --incipit is that if there were not an incipit encoded in the data, the program would set maxSystemPerPage to 1 and page to 1 in order to output the first system of music.

Is there a way of using --appXPathQuery to extract an explicitly encoded incipit? Perhaps too complicated as this would probably require re-arranging the tree structure of the document.

Of course, I am way too lazy to separately encode an incipit in the header, so I would do:

    verovio --max-systems-per-page 1 --page 1

[craigsapp]

/~https://github.com/rism-ch/verovio/wiki/Backburner-Issues