[smufl-discuss] Re: Hufnagel plainchant style

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[smufl-discuss] Re: Hufnagel plainchant style

dspreadbury
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Myke wrote:

> Hufnagelschrift is in a sense a graphical variant of square
> notation, which is well-presented in Bravura.  It is frequently
> mixed with square notation in publications — for instance, to denote
> that a German scribe notated a portion of the music — and is
> important enough that I would hate to do anything to make it less
> likely to have a SMuFL-complient font have these symbols. But I do
> believe that it falls into the category that, say, a Jazz
> Handwriting Treble Clef would — a graphical variant without
> intrinsic semantic meaning.

If the most appropriate way to handle Hufnagelschrift is that it should be
presented as recommended stylistic alternates for the existing plainchant
glyphs, then that's fine by me.

Daniel

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