Re: [smufl] Add new 'Fingering' range

At the risk of pointing out the obvious:

On 2016-04-19 10:39, Jan Rosseel wrote:
> ...As a big proponent of semantic annotations, we should find a way to 
> indicate fingerings, and then let the (musician) chose a “font” to 
> render those. This allows to distribute and transform fingerings 
> between musicians even if they have different habits of notating them....
SMuFL encodings are not the only way indicate notation or annotation, 
and may not be the best way. Might "indicat[ing] fingerings" be the 
domain of the notation language, rather than SMuFL?  The notation 
language could even offer a way to represent the semantics of the 
fingering, and independently represent which of various renderings the 
notator prefers to see in the score.

On 2016-04-19 10:39, Jan Rosseel continued:
> ...So indeed, maybe this is better handled outside of SMUFL, and 
> directly in the rendering engine. Which would mean that we need 
> another standard to cover (semantic) annotations....
Exactly.

I don't have an opinion about the specific proposal to 'add a new 
"Fingering" range'. I just want to remind us, when deep in SMuFL 
discussions, not to lose sight of the rest of the music notation 
architecture.

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