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

On 4/15/2020 1:22 PM, James Sutton wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
> 
> A standard font format is not at all convenient for our purposes, SVG 
> is.The parser implementation we use is our own (and it's really simple).
> 
> I see no sign that SVG is about to be abandoned as a standard! 


I never thought, implied, or stated that SVG was to be abandoned.  Read 
more carefully.  I only thought, implied, and stated that SVG fonts are 
deprecated as part of the SVG standard (version 2.0 sperifically, 
although I didn't state that, because the earlier link I posted stated 
that).

> It has a 
> future https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/  


And in section 11.1.2 of the link you just posted, it clearly states to 
use WOFF fonts.  So if you want to use fonts, and want to grow with SVG, 
then you should use WOFF fonts.  Surprise! There is a Bravura.woff!  Or 
if not, it is easily created from Bravura.ttf.


> It is perfect for defining symbols 
> which is what we are using it for in this case.
> 
> We are not 'clinging tightly to deprecated features' but we certainly do 
> not want to take on a pile of work for no good reason


SVG fonts are a deprecated feature of the SVG standard! Long live SVG! 
But use SVG fonts for new development at your own risk.

I'll leave the whole quoted email, so you can re-read it, and realize 
that I said nothing about SVG itself being deprecated.

> 
> best regards
> James Sutton
> Dolphin Computing
> www.dolphin-com.co.uk <http://www.dolphin-com.co.uk>
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> www.playscore.co <http://www.playscore.co>
> 
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> 
>> On 15 Apr 2020, at 19:38, Glenn Linderman <v+smufl@g.nevcal.com 
>> <mailto:v+smufl@g.nevcal.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/15/2020 3:23 AM, James Sutton wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>> I see browsers do not support SVG fonts any longer, but what about 
>>> non-browsers?
>>
>> The deprecation was done by the SVG standards committee. So SVG 
>> implementations of the future are not likely to support SVG fonts, 
>> even if there are some at present that do.
>>
>> Better to convert your code to use a font format that has a future, 
>> than to cling tightly to the remnants of deprecated features.
>>
>>
>

Received on Wednesday, 15 April 2020 21:43:08 UTC