Re: For Western music notation lovers

From: Marnen Laibow-Koser (marnen@marnen.org)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 09:16:07 CDT

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    On Sep 5, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > Marnen Laibow-Koser, le Mon 05 Sep 2005 19:58:21 -0400, a écrit :
    >
    >> 1. If the reference glyph for MULTI-REST is changed, I fear that it
    >> will break existing fonts and documents.
    >>
    >
    > Do documents really use the appearance, and not the name of the
    > character ?

    I'm not sure I understand your question, but what I meant was this.
    It is possible that some fonts (and documents) have already been
    created where the implementers took a look at the Standard, said "ah,
    the 'MULTI-REST' is really a double whole rest", and went ahead and
    used it as such. If we change the normative reference glyph for
    MULTI-REST, it will indeed bring it in line with the name, but it may
    produce backward-incompatible encoding.

    >
    > Regards,
    > Samuel
    >
    >

    Best,

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