Thanks Werner for pointing this out.
It would help if I read the SMuFL standard before commenting. :-) So I
think my previous comments are invalid. Now that I have read the
standard v 0.6, I see that it works hand in hand with Unicode, and is
not in opposition to, or outside of Unicode. Given that SMuFL defines
the Unicode code points for a much larger set of glyphs for music - and
can be almost limitlessly expanded - than the current Unicode musical
symbol set, and that Unicode is a very widely respected standard, would
it not be the to go to have lilypond use the SMuFL standard for its
fonts, and not to make a mapping between SMuFL and the current
Emmentaler layout? Would this be a major or difficult internal change in
the codebase?
This is of great interest to me because several of the people I do
scores for (contemporary composers) do not favour the very heavy black
Germanic look of the standard lilypond font, attractive though it may
be. It would be nice to have a wider choice to offer in the future, and
if SMuFL takes off as a standard, there may well be many fonts to choose
from.
Andrew
On 10/08/13 2:21 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
I disagree, and I think that you are completely missing the purpose of
SMuFL: It collects *glyphs* which are used somewhere, and which people
need somehow. Compare this to the Adobe Glyph Collections like
`Adobe-Korea1-2' or `Adobe-GB1-5'. As they write on smufl.org:
The goal of SMuFL is to establish a new standard glyph mapping for
musical symbols that is optimised for OpenType fonts and that can be
adopted by a variety of software vendors and font designers, for the
benefit of all users of music notation software.
Unicode is a *character* standard, mainly to *exchange* information.
It is *not* related to glyphs, or to fonts. The SMuFL team correctly
maps the glyphs to the Private Area of Unicode, and they don't suggest
the inclusion of any of those entities into the Unicode standard.
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