Werner Icking wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:14:04 +0000
> > From: Michael Nyvang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I do some font development, and have plans to develop a set
> > of music-fonts to be released as a GPL'ed "Open Source" like
> > project / set.
>
> Do you know that there are already proposed standards for encoding
> music? Here it is ISO/IEC 10646:
>
> http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dmmc/Music/UnicodeMusic/
>
> And
>
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html
>
> tells something about the stat of the proposal.
>
> Mentioning this proposal does not mean that I recommend it.
Thank you for the pointer, it looks very interesting, and *more
references
like this* is very helpful, to avoid doing unnecessary work, that others
might already have done.
I will check it out, very profoundly, however, one issue is not very
well
addressed, and that is the matter of "typographical styles" like
the difference between Bach's handwriting, and the published
urtext scores of his.
I am am very focused on this, as I think it will be a loss if computer
typography in music becomes completely uniform. You can write
almost every musical symbol in as many ways as you can design
alphabets - why not do it then ?
I want to inspire people to think about that, and to be able to
have a collection to start from. Maybe then extending it later
to a program, which make it easier to creat your own designs.
(anyway for now I'm only probing the possibilities, in a very
chaotic brainstorming way - so I just jot down what ever comes
to mind, and all proposals and ideas are welcome :-).
--
Happy days,
Michael Nyvang.
