- From: dspreadbury via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:02:21 +0000
- To: public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org
I don't think there is any practical reason to include the digits 0, 6, 7, 8, or 9 in a range of glyphs that are designed to be used for specifying fingerings, since (to my knowledge) there is no zeroth finger, nor do (most) people have more than five fingers on a given hand (and such people with more than five fingers are a sufficiently rare commodity that it is not usual to indicate fingerings for their additional phalanges...). Therefore I propose that the new **Fingering** range should consist of 16 reserved code points, from U+ED10 to U+ED1F, with 14 of the 16 code points occupied as follows: Name | Description | Code point ---- | ---- | ---- fingering1 | Fingering 1 | ED10 fingering2 | Fingering 2 | ED11 fingering3 | Fingering 3 | ED12 fingering4 | Fingering 4 | ED13 fingering5 | Fingering 5 | ED14 fingeringT | Fingering T (left-hand thumb for guitar) | ED15 fingeringP | Fingering p (pulgar; right-hand thumb for guitar) | ED16 fingeringI | Fingering i (indicio; right-hand index finger for guitar) | ED17 fingeringM | Fingering m (medio; right-hand middle finger for guitar) | ED18 fingeringA | Fingering a (anular; right-hand ring finger for guitar) | ED19 fingeringSubstitutionAbove | Finger substitution above | ED1A fingeringSubstitutionBelow | Finger substitution below | ED1B fingeringSubstitutionDash | Finger substitution dash | ED1C fingeringMultipleNotes | Multiple notes played by thumb or single finger | ED1D This range therefore accommodates all of the keyboard fingering symbols specified by Gould on pages 308 and 309 of *Behind Bars*, and also accommodates the common left- and right-hand fingerings used in classical guitar notation. The thumb position symbol often used in conjunction with finger numbers for string instruments is already encoded at `stringsThumbPosition` and `stringsThumbPositionTurned` (U+E624 and U+E625). -- GitHub Notification of comment by dspreadbury Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/smufl/issues/34#issuecomment-211967217 using your GitHub account
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