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Dave wrote:
> This is a difference then: my 'Music Enhanced Text Fonts' are firmly rooted > in the Latin character set, as the whole point is to let you write things > like 'Bb Clarinet', G#7b5. (I'm not sure how notes and chords are referred > to in languages which use other scripts, but having the Latin alphabet is a > bare minimum for me.) What I mean is that SMuFL is just a recommended organisation of characters in the Private Use Area. A SMuFL-compliant font may choose to implement as much or as little of the SMuFL repertoire as is appropriate for the font in question; the only requirement is that those glyphs found in SMuFL should appear at their SMuFL code points. As such, a font designer may also choose to populate any other Unicode range in addition to whichever parts of SMuFL seem appropriate. A font could encode the whole Latin character set, or the whole Simplified Chinese character set, or whatever: it would still be SMuFL-compliant. So one approach to making a "Music Enhanced Text Font" would be to populate the complete Latin character set, then include as much of the SMuFL repertoire as seems useful in the PUA. Bravura Text, as it happens, does not include any characters in the basic Latin set, since it is intended to be used with any other text font, though it would not harm its usefulness at all, nor affect its SMuFL-ness, if the Latin set were included in the font. Indeed, the handful of musical symbols at U+2669–U+266F are also included in both Bravura and Bravura Text. This is not required for SMuFL compliance, but it seems useful. > 2. The music symbols scale on a 5 line staff which is the height of the > EM-square. FWIW, the guidelines for a SMuFL-compliant text font suggest that the staff height should be equal to the caps height, rather than the (larger) em square. Typically the caps height in a text font tends to be around 0.75–0.8em, so the staff height in Bravura Text is 0.8em. Daniel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, Frankenstrasse 18b, D-20097 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49 (40) 21035-0 | Fax: +49 (40) 21035-300 | www.steinberg.net President: Andreas Stelling | Managing Director: Hiroshi Sasaki, Hirofumi Osawa Registration Court: Hamburg HRB 86534 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[hidden email]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[hidden email]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[hidden email]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[hidden email]> Send administrative queries to <[hidden email]> |
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