[smufl-discuss] Re: Arrows (Was: Additional glyphs)

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[smufl-discuss] Re: Arrows (Was: Additional glyphs)

Ahmed Tahar
Le 24 juil. 2013 à 17:16, Daniel Spreadbury <[hidden email]> a écrit :

> Ahmed wrote:
>
>> Emil wrote:
>>
>>> By the way: there was a misunderstanding concerning vertical
>>> arrows, that are currently encoded at U+E689 and U+E68A. I suggested
>>> these glyphs and mentioned their meaning as sharper/flatter
>>> intonation, but I did not write what I meant, and I did not point
>>> out that they are used in a certain variety of meanings (like the
>>> one discussed now). My sincere apologies for this vagueness, I
>>> suggest to move them to the general articulation range.
>>
>> Indeed, I didn't pay attention to this symbols since it is located
>> in vocal techniques. I was expected to find this kind of arrows in
>> guitar category (I'm a guitarist) or in an other more general.
>
> Perhaps we should consider making it a recommendation that SMuFL-compliant
> fonts should encode some or all of the range of 'Arrows' defined in the
> Unicode standard between 2190–21FF (112 glyphs)?
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2190.pdf
>
> What do people think about this?
>
> This doesn't help with arrow*heads* specifically, of course.  There
> doesn't seem to be a complete block of these defined in Unicode, but there
> are some in the 'Miscellaneous technical' range:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2300.pdf


Wouah this makes a lot of arrows :). Maybe we don't need so much glyphs. We nearly have all we need in the smufl multi-segment lines category except some arrowheads (up and down would be enough). For sure, we can use existing code points from the unicode standard but what about other symbols like tremolo, flags, etc..  I'd rather like having the "only-needed" arrowheads in smulfl area.

Musically,

Ahmed Tahar
Functional Analyst // Arobas Music
http://www.guitar-pro.com
http://www.mysongbook.com
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