From: Grzegorz Rolek
>> As to my understanding, it is not our goal to create a range of Unicode
>> Standard for musical notation, so that a full score could be encoded in
>> Unicode.
>That's right, and I don't think the Committee will ever want to deal with
>non-linear systems otherwise than by encoding the individual, standalone
>symbols. That's one thing.
>> It is about assigning _glyphs_ (or perhaps some abstract characters),
>> that are required for musical notation (and for limited text display). We
>> are still talking about PUA.
>But here, the better we use the private area, that is, the better we fit
>into the nuances of Unicode model and its current support for music in
>running text, the greater are chances that the work done here could be
>compiled eventually into a successful proposal for proper encoding. That
>would mean platform-scale support of whatever we'll work out, and would
>make the development of music fonts, and music notation software itself,
>much more convenient.
Agreed on both points.
Dave
David Webber
Mozart Music Software
http://www.mozart.co.uk/
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