[smufl-discuss] Re: SMuFL 0.9 and Bravura 0.9 released

[Peter Stadler]

Daniel,

the speed at which you're moving is incredible! I'm really looking forward to trying out the new text based font!

All the best
Peter

> Am 17.04.2014 um 23:45 schrieb "Daniel Spreadbury" <[hidden email]>:
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of SMuFL 0.9, which marks what we
> anticipate will be the final milestone on the way to a stable 1.0 release.
> As such, SMuFL 0.9 may be considered a release candidate for the final 1.0
> release.
>
> Since SMuFL 0.85, released in March, more than 200 new glyphs have been
> added, including four new ranges. A comprehensive review of LilyPond's
> Emmentaler font has led to the addition of many new glyphs, and survey of
> important instrumentation handbooks by Ertuğrul Sevsay (Bärenreiter, 2005)
> and Karl Peinkofer & Fritz Tannigel (Schott, 1976) have led to the
> addition of a number of new percussion pictograms. New ranges for Kodàly
> hand signs, Simplified Music Notation and lyrics also provide a good
> number of new glyphs. As always, a complete list of the changes and new
> glyphs is available in the version history:
>
> http://www.smufl.org/versionhistory
>
> Our hope is that no further glyphs will be added to SMuFL before version
> 1.0. The deadline to request new glyphs passed at the end of March, and
> since then the focus has been on completing the work relating to producing
> guidelines for SMuFL-compliant fonts intended for use with text
> applications, and the development of a reference font embodying these
> guidelines.
>
> A set of guidelines for SMuFL text fonts has been completed and can be
> found in the Notes for implementers section in the SMuFL 0.9
> specification. The Bravura 0.9 distribution now includes Bravura Text, a
> reference font for text-based applications, in addition to the existing
> Bravura font, a reference font for scoring applications. The distribution
> also includes a usage guide for Bravura Text, describing how to insert
> Unicode characters from the font into applications on Windows and OS X,
> and providing details of specific features of the font, such as the use of
> ligatures to allow hundreds of symbols (including noteheads, accidentals,
> articulations, etc.) to be displayed at multiple vertical positions.
>
> Bravura and Bravura Text are now supplied in Embedded OpenType (EOT)
> format, in addition to OpenType with PostScript outlines, WOFF and SVG.
>
> There have also been significant developments in the richness of the JSON
> metadata supplied, both at the level of SMuFL itself and in font-specific
> metadata. The SMuFL metadata distribution now includes a new ranges.json
> file, which provides information about the glyph ranges as they appear in
> the SMuFL specification. The glyphnames.json file has been enhanced to
> include the human-readable description for each glyph in addition to its
> canonical camel case name.
>
> The specification for font-specific metadata is significantly enriched,
> with new structures to help expose the repertoire of optional glyphs (in
> the range U+F400–U+FFFF) of a SMuFL-compliant font to applications,
> including descriptions of ligatures, stylistic alternates, and stylistic
> sets. Font-specific metadata may also include a bounding box for each
> glyph, which could in time help MakeMusic provide automatic Font
> Annotation (FAN) files for SMuFL-compliant fonts used in Finale.
>
> Full details of all of the improvements in these metadata files is found
> in the Notes for implementers section within the SMuFL specification.
>
> SMuFL 0.9 can be downloaded here:
>
> http://www.smufl.org/download
>
> Bravura 0.9 can be downloaded here:
>
> http://www.smufl.org/fonts
>
> With the release of SMuFL 0.9 there are no remaining known work items
> standing in the way of a stable 1.0 release. If you believe there is
> something significant that must be considered before SMuFL reaches version
> 1.0, please raise the issue with the community as soon as possible via the
> smufl-discuss mailing list.
>
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