[smufl-discuss] Re: Glyphs for "col 8va"

[dspreadbury]

Hans wrote:

> I think it would be nice to include these glyphs to SMuFL:
>   - col 8va
>   - col 8vb
>   - col 8
>   - con 8va
>   - con 8vb
>   - con 8
> and for a piece I engraved about a year ago the composer wrote:
>   - +8va
>   - +8vb

I think this request amounts to adding glyphs for "col" and "con" (since
the 'Octaves' range already includes the 8, 8va, 8vb etc. glyphs).

In general I am reluctant to add glyphs that can easily be created using a
regular text font, because the job of a music symbol font is to contain
only musical symbols, and ideally the presentation of regular letter forms
should be determined by the user/developer's choice of text font. (The
only reason 'D.C.' and 'D.S.' are encoded in SMuFL is because they are
part of the Unicode Musical Symbols range, and SMuFL is designed to be a
superset of that range.)

Daniel

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