[smufl-discuss] SMuFL 0.9 and Bravura 0.9 released

[dspreadbury]

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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