Just to note that abc->SVG already exists, as well. wil On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > This proposal is not new, and the chair's previous invitation to any > interested subgroup stands. It's fine if a subgroup of people want to > develop a clearer notion of how SVG might be annotated with musical > semantic and performance data. > > However, I must echo Jeremy's feelings on the issues. I do not believe > this approach will address most of the use cases that we've already > catalogued. It only "future-proofs" the graphical angle of music > representation, and will yield documents that are visually rigid and merely > reflect a specific, original graphical rendering. This defect is a big > problem for CMN use cases, and in general I believe it's true for any > notational idiom whose rules are sufficiently abstract to permit many > possible visual realizations. > > Now, there *are* clear advantages to connecting the markup representing *a > specific SVG rendering* of a musical document back to the semantics that > generated it. But the fact that Verovio, or Noteflight, or other notation > rendering systems actually produce such annotated SVG does not, in itself, > argue in favor of adopting SVG as a central construct for music > representation. Nor does it argue specifically for MEI, MusicXML 3.0, or > any of the existing semantic formats that produce such annotations tody. It > merely says: there's value in being able to map a given rendering to > elements of its original document (and perhaps this is a more attainable > and worthwhile goal of the concept). Given the fact that notational > semantics are inherently non-tree-structured, I doubt that it is easy to > make the rendering include all the original information, though. > > Best, > > ...Joe > > -- The Craic app: http://thecraic.co abc tunes on the iPad and iPhone Sideband app: http://sideband.co slow down, loop and change the key. Learn by ear. Products and services: http://flagpig.com Twitter: @tom_frog
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