[smufl-discuss] Re: Glyph Registration and Graphical Metadata

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[smufl-discuss] Re: Glyph Registration and Graphical Metadata

Mark Johnson
David: Two objections.

> It doesn't actually *need* to be adjustable.

1. You're talking about taking away an option that millions of Finale
& Sibelius users have had for a quarter century. Depending on the
design of a clef, it might look better at 3/4 or some other size.

2. The problem with having 2/3-size clefs as separate codepoints is
that "Unicode does not encode glyphs"; it encodes characters. If it
functions as a G-clef, it's a G-clef regardless of the size or design.
Daniel is right that scaled-down clefs need to be character
alternates.

For this reason it now occurs to me to object to having codepoints for
grace notes in the PUA range of SMuFL. They are already in Perry
Roland's spec at U+1D194~5, and they're only there because of the
legacy Sonata character set. (Notice there are no characters for
stem-down grace notes, etc.)

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