Re: Co-Chair Meeting Minutes: March 5, 2019 [via Music Notation Community Group]

Hi all,

> The co-chairs are in broad agreement that we should focus MNX on the semantic format currently known as MNX-Common and move the MNX-Generic format to a separate specification. We will invite feedback from the user community about whether we are overlooking any advantages to the current approach, for feedback about the idea of separating them, and to solicit ideas for names for a newly-separated format.

I fully agree with this decision. I think it is necessary for the 
MNX-Common specification to progress.


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> Adriam raised the issue of using CSS-like styling in MNX, which is currently part of the draft specification. Although he thinks it's conceptually a beautiful idea, it will probably be impractical to embed CSS syntax directly in the format because it will require the building of a whole parallel parser. Michael agreed, and there was brief discussion about how we should take the aspects of CSS that work for us and build an XML-friendly approach that fits into the existing XML parser. We know that this was something of a controversial approach among the community for this reason anyway.

One of the major goals of MNX is a clear separation of semantic concerns 
from presentation/interpretation concerns. Independently of how styling 
will be addressed (full CSS, CSS subset, other concepts) this goal 
should not be given up. CSS has the advantage that it is well-stablished 
and manageable standard. I would not like to see attributes like 
"default-x" or "color" merged with other semantic attributes in the MNX 
format. Otherwise we might run into getting MusicXML 4 instead of MNX. I 
don't think this is what we want.


Best,
Dominik


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