Request for addition of symbols to German Renaissance lute tablature (U+EC00–U+EC2F)

Hello,

You may have heard about the E-LAUTE (Electronic Linked Annotated Unified
Tablature Edition) project, an international research project in which
academic institutes and libraries from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
collaborate in order to create “an open-access comprehensive and
interactive edition of the lute tablatures of the German-speaking area
between 1450 and 1550” (https://e-laute.info/).

An important part of our work is creating an MEI implementation of German
lute tablature, which we will be rendering using Verovio. As you know,
Verovio follows the SMuFL specification -- and our problem is that the
current set of German lute tablature symbols in SMuFL (
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/german-renaissance-lute-tablature.html)
is incomplete.

As per the instructions (https://www.smufl.org/contribute/), we are
therefore requesting the addition of 34 new symbols -- most of them
variants of already existing SMuFL symbols -- and the replacement of three
particular existing symbols.

We have specified our requests in a Google document, which contains images
and descriptions of these symbols, as well as additional information:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wETMzk2CM0r_WlzA2e4XM-x7nmPidPOlloR-jZn7Xpo/edit?usp=sharing

The symbols requested now are the ones needed most critically, and are a
subset of all the symbols we need -- but in order to keep things
manageable, we will specify those remaining symbols (a smaller set) in one
or more subsequent requests.

Please let us know if anything is unclear, whether we are doing this the
right way, or if you need additional information.

We look forward to hearing from you!

On behalf of the E-LAUTE team and the MEI Tablature Interest Group,

Reinier de Valk
Olja Janjuš
David M. Weigl
David Lewis