Re: SMuFL: Thoughts on brackets

Daniel wrote:

> Parentheses are not presently included in the dynamics range because the characters in the dynamics range are typically combined with characters from a normal text font, e.g. for situations where a bold italic dynamic is set along with text such as "espress." or "cresc.", or whatever. As such, it's typical for the parentheses used in dynamics to be those taken from the text font with which the bold dynamics are paired.

I definitely see your point, but since expressive instructions in italic does not always exist in a score, I'd nevertheless would like to see them added.

> If you have a specific proposal for which ranges should add brackets, and what kinds of brackets should be added, by all means please share it.


I'd suggest including brackets at least to the following ranges:

Individual notes (for augmentation dot)
Standard accidentals
Articulations
Common ornaments
Dynamics (If parenthesis will be included after all.)

Knut Nergaard
Thor Olsens gt. 6A
N-0177 OSLO
Tel: +47 984 85 750
Mail: knut.nergaard@gmail.com

> 19. okt. 2015 kl. 10.35 skrev Daniel Spreadbury <D.Spreadbury@steinberg.de>:
> 
> Knut Nergaard <knut.nergaard@gmail.com> wrote on 18/10/2015 17:38:51:
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> > With regard to my own upcoming music font, I've gotten some specific
> > requests from engravers and editors for additional bracketed symbols
> > for editorial use. At present, only a limited amount of the 
> > categories in SMuFL include matching parenthesis or square brackets.
> > Both are commonly used to indicate courtesy, reservation or 
> > editorial markings in Urtext editions etc. Some categories are of 
> > course more relevant than others in this respect; to me, the 
> > Dynamics and Articulation categories are among those most sorely 
> > lacking matching brackets. Including them will also give some 
> > prevalence for font designers to include bracketed ligatures, which 
> > would be a big time saver when setting these kinds of editions. 
> > Indeed such ligatures might even be included as recommendations in SMuFL. 
> 
> Parentheses are not presently included in the dynamics range because the characters in the dynamics range are typically combined with characters from a normal text font, e.g. for situations where a bold italic dynamic is set along with text such as "espress." or "cresc.", or whatever. As such, it's typical for the parentheses used in dynamics to be those taken from the text font with which the bold dynamics are paired.
> 
> Conversations I have had with engravers working with the top publishers suggest that, for high-end work, in practice they use many dozens of different editorial brackets, e.g. different bracket heights and widths for different combinations of articulations (a taller one for a combination of, say, tenuto and staccatissimo than for a combination of tenuto and staccato).
> 
> This in itself is perhaps not a good reason not to provide additional brackets in some of these ranges, of course. As you say, one possibility would be to include ligated versions of specific combinations of brackets with other characters.
> 
> If you have a specific proposal for which ranges should add brackets, and what kinds of brackets should be added, by all means please share it.
> 
> Daniel
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