[smufl-discuss] Re: Proposing the removal of the wind fingering charts ranges from SMuFL 1.0

[dspreadbury]

Very many congratulations on your tenure, Myke! And thanks for your
feedback on this issue:

> SMuFL and the Unicode-code pages that we hope eventually come out of
> it will be with us for the long-haul. That’s one of the greatest
> assets of the proposal. But it also gives an obligation not to omit
> a musically important set of glyphs from the specification because
> they’re too hard to render in a current font.

It's important to remember that SMuFL 1.0 is not intended to be the end of
the road. I fully expect there to be further versions of SMuFL in the
future. So the removal of the wind fingering charts from SMuFL 1.0 does
not preclude their later restoration. I intend to try to find a way to
produce these charts without requiring the use of zero-width characters,
but I need to devote my energies elsewhere in the short term.  So think of
the removal of these fingering charts from SMuFL as a temporary measure
while a more suitable technical solution is found.

Daniel

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