From: Emil B. Wojtacki
> Well, I would say rather, that the "regular clef" is an "initial
variant" of a changing clef, i.e. a kind of flag, or reminder.
I like it - it can certainly be argued either way :-)
> I think the difference between full-sized clefs and change-sized clefs
is similar to initial and middle letterforms in Arabic. Now, Unicode
does encode all four variants of Arabic letters....
Yes I can see that analogy too.
The point you make that
>....scoring apps normally do not output music as text strings.<
is a very valid one too.
Actually these days I do output things like ppp and sffz as strings of
single characters - my font has f p m f s in the 'dynamic style' (and one
day I'll add r). [I used to use p, pp, ppp, etc all as 'single glyphs' but
changed to using strings when people wanted fz sfz sffz sfffz and I needed
to put a brake on the number of characters exploding.] The other
circumstance where I uses strings of music characters is in chord names like
Cmaj7b5 (which include letters, numbers, and symbols for dim, half-dim,
etc).
But you're right: almost all characters are drawn as a "string of 1
character"and your point that
> For scoring apps, fixed code points are simply much more convenient.<
is spot on.
Dave
David Webber
Mozart Music Software
http://www.mozart.co.uk/
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