[smufl-discuss] SMuFL 0.85 and Bravura 0.85 released

[dspreadbury]

I am pleased to announce the release of SMuFL 0.85, another important
milestone on the road towards a stable 1.0 release, which is targeted for
the first half of this year.

SMuFL 0.85 is the first version to include the classes.json metadata file,
which specifies useful groups of glyphs for consuming applications.
Classes are entirely optional, so it is not required that a glyph should
be in any class. Likewise, glyphs can be in multiple classes. Consuming
applications can choose to use the classes
metadata to help work out how to handle different glyphs within a
SMuFL-compliant font.

There have also been a number of improvements to the classification of
glyphs within ranges in this revision. For example, the 'Quartertone
accidentals (24-EDO)' and 'Other microtonal accidentals' ranges have now
been combined into a single 'Other accidentals' range, such that each of
the preceding ranges of accidentals represents a coherent system, and all
of the remaining accidentals used on a more ad hoc basis are now grouped
together. Similarly, the number of glyphs in the final 'Miscellaneous
symbols' range has been reduced by redistributing the percussion swish
stem decoration and staff divide arrows to other groups.

New and expanded ranges of glyphs in this revision include the addition of
a range for Kievian square notation (in response to a comparison between
the repertoire of symbols in Emmentaler and those specified by SMuFL),
further revisions to the plainchant ranges, and significant expansion of
the 'Electronic music pictograms' range.
As always, complete details of changes and additions are found in the
version history:

http://www.smufl.org/versionhistory/ 

I am also pleased to release an update to Bravura, bringing it to version
0.85 in correspondence with SMuFL 0.85. With this update, Bravura is now
distributed as an SVG font and in WOFF (Web Open Font Format) in addition
to OpenType format.

SMuFL 0.85 can be downloaded here:

http://www.smufl.org/download/ 

Bravura 0.85 can be downloaded here:

http://www.smufl.org/fonts 

With the release of classes.json, we have taken another important step
towards achieving the outstanding areas of active implementation that
are blocking a stable 1.0 release. The remaining two areas are as follows:


* Development of metrics and glyph registration guidelines for
SMuFL-compliant fonts intended for use in text-based applications; and
* Development of a version of Bravura that implements these new
guidelines.

The stable 1.0 release remains contingent on the completion of the above
areas of work.

Don’t forget: if you are harbouring suggestions for new glyphs, please
submit them before the end of March 2014 for consideration in the 1.0
release.

Finally, I will be in attendance at the MusicXML Community Meeting taking
place this Friday 14 March at Musikmesse Frankfurt to discuss the possible
integration of SMuFL with MusicXML as part of the proposed MusicXML 4.0
development. If you are planning to attend, I am looking forward to
meeting you there.

Daniel

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