Re: Co-chair Meeting Minutes: April 14, 2020 [via Music Notation Community Group]

Hi Daniel,

I see browsers do not support SVG fonts any longer, but what about non-browsers?

It has always seemed to me that music symbols are not a natural fit for a font which is designed for text. SVG seems ideal.

The Bravura font is a very good and complete set of musical symbols and I have been drawing on it for use in SeeScore which stores and reads symbols in SVG. This is very important for SeeScore which operates across different platforms with a very small amount of platform-specific code which handles lines, curves and simple text. The handling of text across platforms is very variable and it is very difficult or impossible to get the text handling identical between platforms. The SVG can be handled with an interpreter which converts the string directly to line and curve graphics calls, and this works perfectly.

Is there a converter to generate SVG from OpenType?

with best regards
James Sutton
Dolphin Computing
www.dolphin-com.co.uk <http://www.dolphin-com.co.uk/>
www.seescore.co.uk <http://www.seescore.co.uk/>
www.playscore.co <http://www.playscore.co/>





> On 14 Apr 2020, at 22:21, Daniel Spreadbury <D.Spreadbury@steinberg.de> wrote:
> 
> I refer you to the issue on GitHub where this is discussed:
> 
> https://github.com/steinbergmedia/bravura/issues/23
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On 14/04/2020, 21:36, "Glenn Linderman" <v+smufl@g.nevcal.com> wrote:
> 
>    On 4/14/2020 1:13 PM, James Sutton wrote:
>> Why are you retiring the SVG version of Bravura?
>> Some of us use it!
> 
>    One reason might be documented here:
>    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/font
> 
> 
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