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

[dspreadbury]

Hans wrote:

> I'm still looking through SMuFL and have an additional questions about
> chords in figured bass (or basso continuo). If you look in detail
> there are many ways of writing a figured bass, I learned most of them
> in school, the system we used the most was one with slashes through
> the numbers for augmented and diminished ranges. The best example I
> could find:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/figured-bass
> Should I compose these glyphs or is there a change that they are
> added in SMuFL?

SmuFL 0.5 contains two glyphs for "striking through" one or more digits,
to show raising or lowering by a semitone/half-step, which I believe takes
care of this requirement. It'll be published soon, so you can see for
yourself.

Daniel

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