From: Daniel Spreadbury
> 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.) <
Just my 2d:
I think that is sensible in general. In this case would one write
coll'ottava
con 8va
col 8va
coll'8va
?
The versions con 8va or col 8va seem to be standard, though coll'8va looks
more pedantically correct to me. :-) But in any case, you then have to
worry about "col 8va sopra" and "col 8va bassa", so the text option
definitely looks better.
One place where glyphs look tempting is for "maj", "dim", "aug" etc
elements of chord names, and on the whole I like the idea, but even that has
problems for international usage. I have recently been reminded of names
like Hv and La7b5 (Bdim and A7b5 in German and French respectively), and so
a text approach has advantages there too - but the disadvantage that you
need a font containing the special symbols (triangle half-dim etc) and the
accidentals in a way which fits with the text.
But apart from chord names, which have these problems, writing things which
look like text using text, is more flexible.
Dave
David Webber
Mozart Music Software
http://www.mozart.co.uk/
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