[smufl-discuss] Re: SMuFL 0.5 minor issues

[dspreadbury]

Hans wrote:

> Reading through it I noticed that the glyphs at EA8B-EA8E got mixed
> up. The names doesn't match with the glyph.

Are you referring to the fact that they are orientated left-to-right
rather than up-to-down? If so, then the reason they're drawn this way is a
quirk of implementation: it's easier to correctly tesselate these
characters if their side bearings are set to overlap so that the join is
smooth when you draw them in a string one after another, i.e. as if the
arpeggiando line was written as a run of text, and then to rotate that run
of text through 90 degrees, than to draw them one above the other, because
the line spacing of the font can't practically be set to guarantee that
the line segments will join smoothly.

There are, to be sure, other ways of approaching this, e.g. to specify the
amount of overlap of vertical characters using the separate metadata file
that we've been talking about, but it seems simpler to handle these kinds
of lines in the same way that e.g. trill lines are handled. To my
knowledge, both Sibelius and Finale, for example, handle these kinds of
lines in this way.

> I don't know anything
> about Turkish folk music, but it looks weird to not have a 4-comma
> sharp at E4CB, is this correct?

It is indeed correct as written. If you're curious about Turkish music,
you might want to check out Mus2:

http://www.mus2.com.tr/en/

Daniel

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