[smufl-discuss] Re: Discussing Unicode and encoding dilemmas

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[smufl-discuss] Re: Discussing Unicode and encoding dilemmas

Grzegorz Rolek

On Jun 3, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Grzegorz Rolek wrote:

> 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.

I would like to add, that the more we figure out at the encoding level, the more independent we will be from a particular smart font technology. There are currently three of them in active development: Microsoft's OpenType, Apple's Advanced Typography, and Graphite from SIL International. They differ in their internal glyph processing models, but they all follow Unicode at the encoding level.



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