[smufl-discuss] Re: Stylistic Alternates

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[smufl-discuss] Re: Stylistic Alternates

Emil B. Wojtacki
Joseph Berkovitz wrote:
> I can absolutely assure you that a commercial music publisher will say that this sort of detail is a real problem, and they increasingly rely on the web as a delivery medium.

Yes, that's right. However, there are commercial publishers that do not
care about such a detail, and ones that rather develop their own
typefaces. And it seems unlikely to me, that one publisher uses both
sans serif and serif TAB clef (please, correct me if I'm wrong).

> But if we can rely on the following, we'll be in good shape:
>
> 1. As Daniel said, require font authors to*also*  provide the alternate TAB clef at an explicit code point, ...

That one provides an  additional convenience for type designers, so I
like it.

Emil

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