Hello everybody,
I add my two cents to the font discussion...
I developed for myself a font for drawing guitar (or similar instrument ) fretboard schemas in a word processor, without having to cut and paste graphic images, etc...
Not exactly an engraving font, but I wonder if it could be of any help and have its little section in some unicode address range...
I set up a blog page where you can find the files and a few documentation...
https://enricodellaquila.blogspot.it/p/my-fonts-page-for-guitar.html
Let me know if it can (or can't) be useful..
Regards
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Enrico Dell'Aquila
(da cellulare)
Hi,
This is really Daniel Spreadbury's department, but I'd like to add my two cents. :-)
https://w3c.github.io/smufl/gitbook/index.html
seems to be self-contradictory.
§1 restricts SMuFL to "conventional music notation":SMuFL is a specification that provides a standard way of mapping the thousands of musical symbols required by conventional music notation into the Private Use Area in Unicode’s Basic Multilingual Plane for a single (format-independent) font.while §2 says SMuFL should be "for the benefit of all users of music notation software":
The goal of SMuFL is to establish a new standard glyph mapping for musical symbols that is optimised for modern font formats and that can be adopted by a variety of software vendors and font designers, for the benefit of all users of music notation software.
IMHO §1 needs revising. There should be a section in SMuFL dedicated to Asian music symbols.
However, deciding how to organize that section needs input from the domain experts. Perhaps Razvan Beuran could help there. For example, do all Asian music notations have symbols with similar meanings? How could they be meaningfully categorized? Do the different Asian notations need sections of their own or not?
All the best,
James Ingram
Am 31.10.2016 um 15:18 schrieb Razvan BEURAN:
Hello,
My name is Razvan Beuran and I am developing software that automatically converts music from Western notation to traditional Japanese notation (such as shakuhachi, koto, shamisen):
https://sites.google.com/site/razvanswebsite/software
For this purpose I have found the need to create some fonts for representing the traditional Japanese notations, and I am midway in achieving this goal.
Recently I have found out about the SMuFL project. When checking the current version I discovered that this kind of notation is not covered at all, however it would be very useful for me and the other people involved in this kind of activities (not many, I admit).
I am contacting you to see if there is interest in extending SMuFL to cover traditional Japanese music notation. I am knowledgeable especially about the Tozan shakuhachi notation, which could be a good start. Moreover, the Tozan school publishes an official manual (in Japanese) which could serve as reference.
In case such an interest exists, I would like to know how I should proceed, since I have not much experience with standardization in general and SMuFL in particular.
I am looking forward to your reply.
Best wishes,
Razvan Beuran