Dear Bertrand, Thank you for sharing this proposal in advance of submitting it to the Unicode Consortium. You have clearly put a lot of thought and effort into this! This proposal works very differently from current music notation software used to produce the world’s sheet music. Do you have some working software that implements this proposal? I am thinking both of software that converts a MusicXML file into this text-based representation, as well as software that can display this text representation in a web browser as music notation. If you do have such software, would you be willing to share it or point us to it so that people in the community can evaluate how well this works in practice? My preference would be to have working software that has been tested by members of the music notation software community before submitting this proposal to the Unicode Consortium. The Unicode standard is not a place for research and development on text representations. Rather it lets us standardize text representation systems that are already in use. Best regards, Michael Good VP of MusicXML Technologies MakeMusic, Inc. > On Aug 31, 2020, at 4:46 PM, Bertrand Émerit <bertrand@emerit.com> wrote: > > Dear ladies and gentlemen, > > On September 30th I plan to submit the attached proposal to the Unicode Consortium. > Unless you ask differently, I intend to Cc you of the mail, while making plain in the body that this is for your information, as you are mentioned in the document, and in no way an endorsement. > > I will be honoured for any review or comment of the documents. Feel free to forward as needed, and I would appreciate that you inform me if you forward outside your organization. > > The proposal should fit nicely if not enrich (and certainly not make a dent in, or replace) your current works, including SMuFL, MusicXML and MEI. > > Best regards, > Bertrand EMERIT > +33672966996 > bertrand@emerit.com <mailto:bertrand@emerit.com>
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