[smufl-discuss] Re: Microtonal accidentals

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[smufl-discuss] Re: Microtonal accidentals

Emil B. Wojtacki
Hartmut Lemmel wrote:
>
> ... there is no clear standard and that it depends on the composer,
> which symbols are used and what their meaning is. Therefore I have
> tried to sort the symbols by graphical attributes rather than by
> musical meaning. I think this is also how the glyph names should be
> designed.

Lot of thanks for that linked pdf-file. I think that this is a good way
for sorting these glyphs.

>
> Some symbols of my collection could be considered as different styles
> of the same thing, like the sharp with an arrow on the left or right
> stem, or the triple barred sharp with equal or different bar length.
> From the coding point of view one could consider the up and down
> arrows also as diacritics. This would save some code points.
Agree, but because of some design issues, I would suggest, that the
accidentals with _single_ arrow should have their codepoints.

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Emil Wojtacki

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