Re: [smufl] Add neutral raised/lowered comma accidentals to Extended Helmholtz-Ellis

The Extended Helmholtz-Ellis Just Intonation accidental system is the 
work of [Marc Sabat](http://www.marcsabat.com/index.html) and it's 
hence not within my power as the maintainer of the SMuFL specification
 to determine whether or not such symbols should be added to this 
system.

In general I don't believe this request meets the (admittedly 
informal) criteria for inclusion into the SMuFL standard on its face, 
because you are asking for the creation of symbols that are not yet in
 use and therefore cannot, by definition, be considered standardised. 
SMuFL is of necessity a trailing indicator of the notations being used
 in contemporary art music: if we were to encode every novel symbol 
used by every composer in every new work, there would be little value 
to its role as a standard.

If there are existing symbols that are widely used to indicate raising
 or lowering a notehead by one or more commas, then those should be 
the ones that are encoded in SMuFL. Otherwise, unless Marc Sabat 
decides that these would be a useful inclusion to HEJI notation, I 
cannot take any further action on this request.

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Received on Monday, 18 April 2016 16:12:18 UTC