Re: Trouble generating Bravura Text / submitting to Bravura

Thank you for the speedy reply, Daniel.

Issue #25 on Bravura's GitHub repo was opened by yours truly :)

I will open another issue there soon when the Sagittal updates are ready.



On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:41 AM Daniel Spreadbury <D.Spreadbury@steinberg.de>
wrote:

> Thanks for getting in touch, Douglas.
>
>
>
> The issue with WOFF2 fonts not having the correct font tables to make the
> combining positions work properly is an open issue in Bravura’s GitHub
> repository, issue #25. I’ve not yet had a chance to look into this, but my
> suspicion is that it’s a tooling issue: I use a tool called FontPlop to
> convert the OTF produced by FontLab into EOT, WOFF and WOFF2.
>
>
>
> If any community group members who are expert in converting fonts into
> web-friendly formats have any suggestions for alternative tools that would
> produce better results, I’d love to hear them.
>
>
>
> But to answer the perhaps most pressing issue: if you would like to
> contribute updated versions of the Sagittal accidentals to Bravura, that’s
> great, and I’d certainly be interested to take a look at them. Since this
> is really a Bravura issue rather than strictly speaking a SMuFL one, I
> suggest you open an issue in the Bravura repository and we can take it from
> there:
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>
>
> https://www.github.com/steinbergmedia/bravura
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>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> *From: *Douglas Blumeyer <douglas.blumeyer@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 22:23
> *To: *"public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org" <
> public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Trouble generating Bravura Text / submitting to Bravura
> *Resent from: *<public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org>
> *Resent date: *Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 22:22
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I am a new member here. Thank you all in advance for being patient with me
> as I ramp up.
>
>
>
> I have searched the archives already (including the older archives on
> Nabble) but haven't found what I'm looking for yet.
>
>
>
> This is my situation: I am a volunteer contributor to the Sagittal
> microtonal music notation system (http://sagittal.org/). I am working on
> submitting both new and updated Sagittal glyphs to Steinberg via an updated
> Bravura font. Before I finalize my submission, however, I want to ensure
> that the vertical positioning of my glyphs is just right with respect to
> staff lines. I am familiar with Bravura Text's ligatures using
> combining staff position characters (
> https://www.w3.org/2019/03/smufl13/tables/combining-staff-positions.html).
> However I am unable to generate new versions of Bravura Text using leading
> font editing software such as FontForge and FontLab; even without making
> any changes to Bravura Text, exporting or generating the font leads to
> invalid files (unable to be installed) which have much larger file sizes
> than they should. I am able to export/generate new versions of Bravura just
> fine; it is only Bravura Text which I cannot create new versions of.
> Bravura does not give the ability to test the combining staff position
> ligatures to be able to test my new and updated glyph's vertical
> positioning, which is why I need to be able to copy my new and updated
> glyphs over from Bravura into Bravura Text.
>
>
>
> So questions related to this situation are:
>
> 1) Is there a better way (than creating a new version of Bravura Text) to
> confirm whether my new and updated glyphs will have the correct vertical
> positioning relative to the staff lines? Am I missing something fundamental
> about how to contribute to Bravura?
>
> 2) If not, has anyone else had this kind of technical trouble generating
> new versions of Bravura Text?
>
>
>
> On a related note, the ligatures for Bravura Text do not work for me with
> the web font versions. The .woff file included in the GitHub
> release includes the ligature glyphs, however the lookup tables mapping the
> pairs of code points to these ligature glyphs are missing. I thought it
> might be as easy as restoring the ligature lookup tables, but my attempts
> were inconclusive -- again, because I cannot generate new versions of the
> Bravura Text font using the font editing software applications I have
> tried, whether through their UI's or their scripting tools. I suspect,
> given how elaborate the installation process for Bravura and Bravura Text
> is, that something more complex is happening in these fonts that I don't
> know enough about yet to account for.
>
>
>
> Thank you again for your patience and for any guidance you can provide me.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Douglas Blumeyer
>
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