Re: SVG output: Bad \smallCaps kerning

On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 12:09 PM Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> wrote:

Try the Cairo backend, adding -dbackend=cairo on the command line or
> #(ly:set-option 'backend 'cairo) in the file. It is partly because of font
> issues like this that the legacy SVG backend is usually inferior to the new
> Cairo backend.
>

That just leads to:

fatal error: compiled without CAIRO_BACKEND

which means I will have to install and keep track of yet another version of
LilyPond -- this one compiled from scratch...

(I begin to understand why there needs to be 15 versions of documentation
now.)