[smufl-discuss] Re: SMuFL 0.8 and Bravura 0.8 released

[dspreadbury]

Myke wrote:

> My suggestion would be two “all open” glyphs.  One showing just the
> (generally 6 or 7) “holes” (whether covered or not) that represent
> unmoveable fingers (generally, index middle ring, plus on clarinet
> alone left thumb) and the other glyph leave as is.   And to provide
> “Open” forms of everything that currently exists as Closed,
> HalfClosed, QuarterClosed, etc.

Yes, I can see that this would be useful. I think I'm going to have to
defer this for the time being, as it would represent quite a major
redesign of the range of glyphs for clarinet fingerings, and I don't
really have time to devote to this at the moment.

If I were simply to produce a version of the fingering chart with the six
main LH and RH keys plus the thumb key shown, but with all of the other
glyphs hidden, the spacing of that simplified chart would not be
satisfactory at all; I'd really need to completely re-do the entire range
to make this approach work. (I looked at a number of existing clarinet
fingering fonts before I decided on the design of the keys, but obviously
didn't find anything quite like the source you've shown here.)

In lieu of me doing this myself for Bravura, my suggestion would be for
fonts that want to present a simplified clarinet fingering chart to make
fingeringClarChart only include the open versions of these seven keys, and
then to implement only the closed/half-closed etc. glyphs that refer to
the seven keys included in the simplified chart.

However, I will definitely log this for future consideration if I work up
the courage and the appetite to rework this chart to make Bravura itself
more compatible with this approach.

Daniel

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