[smufl-discuss] Re: "Music Enhanced Text Fonts" (Slightly OT)

[dspreadbury]

Dave wrote:

> This is Off Topic for SMuFL, but there may be some interest here.
>
> I've been addressing a complementary problem:  not symbols fonts for
writing
> music, but text fonts for writing *about* music.

It's not really off-topic for SMuFL, as one of the use cases we identified
at the outset of the SMuFL project was to enable the use of musical
symbols in a text-based context. The current version of SMuFL in fact
defines a set of guidelines for glyph registration and font metrics for
making a SMuFL-compliant font intended for use in text-based applications,
and indeed the Bravura font family now includes a Bravura Text font as a
reference implementation of said guidelines.

It is not a requirement of a SMuFL-compliant font that the characters in
the basic Latin range should be provided, but equally there is no
impediment in the specification to doing so.

I wonder whether you would consider at least making your Music Enhanced
Text Fonts specification compatible with SMuFL by moving the glyphs from
U+E180 on upwards to their SMuFL code points? Naturally you're under no
obligation to do so, but it seems a shame to propose a standard that is so
neatly a subset of SMuFL and then strike out on your own with regard to
the code points you're using in the PUA.

Daniel

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