[smufl-discuss] Re: SMuFL 0.5 and Bravura 0.2 released

[dspreadbury]

Mark wrote:

> The names and glyphs of tuplet characters for metronome marks
> (U+E22D~33) don’t correspond; they need to be sorted.

Thanks for reporting this.

> For the Sagittal accidentals U+E360~ I think a font was not embedded
> in the PDF. They’re displaying as very compressed low-ascii characters
> or not at all for me here.

Yes, I'm aware of this problem, and hoped that the PDF would at least
render correctly on other Macs like my own, but alas not. I am working on
solving this problem and will re-generate the PDF once I've got a fix.

> The stems on Beamed groups of notes U+E220~ are lighter than those
> Individual notes U+E200~. I think they should be at least as heavy,
> since they usually appear smaller in metronome markings than notes on
> the staff. My aesthetic preference would be to thin the stems on
> Individual notes a bit.

Yes, there is a lack of consistency at the moment, which I need to fix.

> The triplet example on p. 41 bothers me because the bracket doesn’t
> fully enclose the flag on the eighth note. Perhaps this can be solved
> by kerning? I prefer to see tuplet brackets extend out at least 0.25sp
> past a stem on the stem-side.

I'll put this on the list, too.

> Re “Do not copy” U+EB03, the standard red slashed circle is an
> unbroken backslash, northwest to southeast, and covering over the
> thing condemned. This glyph looks too kind & gentle, ineffective at
> dissuasion. It could almost be taken for a stamp signifying that this
> is a copy. Since we can’t specify red, maybe you could reverse out the
> letter shapes underneath the slash instead of vice-versa.

I'll have a go at revising this glyph design in due course.

> The short & long fermati U+E502~ progress in order of length, but at a
> glance it seems illogical to order the double-stroke angled ones
> (short) before single stroke, when the double-stroke square ones
> (long) come after their corresponding single stroke ones. My mind
> wants them to go: round; pointy (single, double); square (single,
> double).

It doesn't really matter, so I'd be inclined to leave it as-is unless
there is strong consensus to the contrary, since any change is additional
work!

> In my opinion, including 5 and 6 p’s and f’s in the font encoding is
> beans. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Beans> It tacitly
> encourages people to write markings that are distorted beyond
> practical meaning. I would rather draw the line at 4, as
> Finale/Petrucci did. You just know someone will complain that there’s
> no glyph for sfffz … but it’s not necessary. The individual letters
> combine just fine.

These are the dynamics specified by MusicXML, which is why they're the
ones included. You can see from Don Byrd's "Extremes of Conventional Music
Notation" site that 6 fortes or pianos is pretty reserved, since Ligeti
has used both ffffffff and pppppppp in his Etudes for Piano!

Daniel

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