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

Hi,

We use the SVG for Verovio too, and it is quite useful to have the SVG
version of Bravura released. I would be happy to see it remaining. However,
I think it would be possible to generate it from the OTF with FontForge if
it does not, but I have not tested this yet.

Laurent

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:25 PM James Sutton <jsutton@dolphin-com.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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
> www.seescore.co.uk
> 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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