[smufl-discuss] Re: Additional Glyphs

[dspreadbury]

Thanks for these suggestions, Emil.

What is the provenance of these individual glyphs? Are they of your own
creation, or do they come from other fonts? If so, which? For several of
them it would be convenient for font developers (including me!) to be able
to bring these outlines into our own fonts directly rather than having to
redraw all of them. If it's possible for you to provide permission to
re-use some of these outlines directly, that would be very useful.

And some specific questions in response:

ARTICULATIONS
- Do you propose the wedge-shaped staccatissimo as an alternative
appearance for U+E183 and U+E184, or do you consider them completely
separate symbols? If so, how are they disambiguated?
- What is the "alzando" articulation used for? Please excuse my ignorance,
but this isn't a term I have previously come across.
- Likewise, what is the purpose of the four directional arrows as
articulations?

DYNAMICS
I suggest that the various dynamics from ppppp to fffff etc. are encoded
as ligatures, rather than at explicit codepoints.

RESTS
In my experience, the old style quarter rest is normally a reversed eighth
rest, rather than a vertically flipped eighth rest. Can you provide any
context for this particular version?

TIME SIGNATURES
Can you provide any information about the "Open time signature 1" glyph?

WIND TECHNIQUES
- Is there a good source for the meaning of the individual embouchure
symbols?
- Likewise, what do each of the reed position symbols mean?

CLEFS
What are the combining C clef and combining bridge clef typically used
for?

NOTEHEADS
I've not come across the kinds of variations you have created for shaped
noteheads with characteristics of breve, semibreve and minim noteheads.
Can you provide a bit more context for these noteheads and why you think
they should be included?

SPECIAL LINES
My gut feeling about these proposals is that the line with both variable
amplitude and frequency is going a bit far for a standard music font;
perhaps the same is also true for the circular motion line. Can you
provide a specific justification for why you think these lines are
standard enough to be included in the standard?

Daniel

"SMuFL Discussion" <[hidden email]> wrote on 04/06/2013
11:58:43:

> From: "Emil B.Wojtacki" <[hidden email]>
> To: "SMuFL Discussion" <[hidden email]>
> Date: 04/06/2013 11:59
> Subject: [smufl-discuss] Additional Glyphs
> Sent by: "SMuFL Discussion" <[hidden email]>
>
>
> I have looked through some of my type cases, and checked it against
> SMuFL. I would like to suggest these characters (with some suggestions
> on implementation in scoring applications):
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/leyccise18k9k97/SMuFL%20additions%201.pdf
>
> (Arpeggiato line is already encoded, but I suggest to create a new range

> for special lines).
>
> It seems to me, that some of these drawings address the suggestions
> expressed by Mark Adler.
>
> Concerning noteheads, I think that for the white noteheas, variants with

> semibreve shading and minim shading should be provided, in addition to
> simple void noteheads (I have added the breve variants for
> completeness). This could probably apply to all the shaped noteheads. (I

> would prefer them to be encoded as ligatures with control characters:
> SEMIBREVE-SHAPED, SEMIBREVE-SHAPED, MINIM-SHAPED, and perhaps
> BREVE-SHAPED, to save the space in encoding -- actually this is an
> advanced typography).
>
> --
> Emil Wojtacki
>
>
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