From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jan 07 2006 - 21:15:06 CST
On 1/7/2006 2:54 PM, Pupeno wrote:
>On Saturday 07 January 2006 17:38, Rick McGowan wrote:
>
>
>>Using pretty much just Unicode characters, perhaps spread among
>>several fonts, and the usual drawing tools & layout smarts that
>>special-purpose music software already has, one should be able to produce
>>musical scores. I don't see a problem, if the right symbols are in Unicode.
>>
>>
I support this approach, which gives to Unicode the role of uniquely
identifying the semantics of a symbol,
even though its rendition may be different between citations in text and
score.
I was astonished to find recently that almost my entire collection of my
sheet music contains symbols that
are not in Unicode, and are neither obvious unifications, nor do they
seem of a patently different nature than
other symbols that are encoded in Unicode.
In no case have I found annotations or a list of symbols used, which
makes me think that at least the
authors (or typesetters) believed that they were using a part of the
'standard' musical notation, which
needed no explanation.
With that experience in mind, I would throw my support behind any
well-researched proposal that seeks
to identify such 'missing' symbols and suggests what characters are
necessary to close the remaining gaps.
A./
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