Co-chair meeting minutes: March 30, 2021 [via Music Notation Community Group]

MusicXML 4.0



MusicXML 4.0 is now feature-complete, with all of the in-progress issues now closed:



#203 and #204: for guitar bends
#281: cross-staff arpeggios
#297: increasing the number-level maximum value
#277: same stem appearing in multiple parts




Attention has now turned to building the MusicXML 4.0 documentation using the docgenerator tool, which has involved Michael and Adrian sharing feedback and progress – for more specific details, see below.



Michael welcomes feedback on the new features in MusicXML 4.0. If you want to build software or otherwise test against the new schemas, they are available here.



SMuFL 1.4



The final community report (FCR) for SMuFL 1.4 has been published (here and here) and work on this revision of the specification is now complete.



The SMuFL 1.4 FCR is released under the W3C Final Specification Agreement (FSA), under which members of the community group are asked to make a voluntary licensing commitment concerning the intellectual property they have contributed to the project. For more information, read a summary of the FSA.



When you are ready to make your voluntary licensing commitment for SMuFL 1.4, please click here.



There are no immediate plans to start work on SMuFL 1.5, but please feel free to continue to raise and discuss issues so that we can start to build a backlog of areas of future work.



MNX



Adrian has been expanding the MNX documentation tool to handle a variety of new concepts in its data model. All of these are a result of his work to make the tool able to handle the needs of MusicXML:



Multiple schemas (in order to handle MusicXML's Score, Opus, Sounds, etc. schemas)
A concept of "site options" (a place to hold site-specific metadata that's globally available; previously the site hard-coded MNX for this)
Ability to treat an element's sub-elements as either an ordered sequence or a set of choices
HTML formatting support for all description text
Support for static pages and collections thereof (which will be used, e.g., for the MusicXML tutorial and other documentation pages that aren't handled by the automatic "reference" part of the docs)




The README has been updated to provide instructions on how to import the MusicXML XSD into the docgenerator system.



Adrian and Michael have been working together to plan the logistics of migrating the MusicXML docs to this system. There are a few remaining technical to-dos, and then begins the process of data entry to get content copied over into the new system.



Next meeting



The next co-chairs' meeting will be on Tuesday 13 April 2021.



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