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0 pointsadrianh2y ago0 comments

They're totally different things, though the standards are maintained by the same people.

SMuFL is a font layout specification. It solves the longtime problem of "I'm making a music font. Which Unicode code glyph should I use for a treble clef?" For many years, this was a Wild West situation, and it wasn't possible to swap music fonts because they defined their glyphs in inconsistent ways. This problem is basically solved now, thanks to SMuFL.

MNX is a way of encoding the music itself. It solves the problem of "I have some music notation I want to encode in a semantic format, so it can be analyzed/displayed/exported/imported/etc."

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odyssey72y ago

Thanks. If it isn't too many questions, are any layout concerns encodable in MNX, or is it scoped to semantic information only?

adrianhOP2y ago

Yes, the goal is to allow people to encode layout information optionally — as a separate layer from the semantic information.

One particularly cool thing is the ability for a single document to have multiple layouts (!), which is useful for parts vs. conductor scores. See here for an example: https://w3c.github.io/mnx/docs/mnx-reference/examples/multip...

odyssey72y ago

Much appreciated! This is excellent work.

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0 pointsadrianh2y ago0 comments

They're totally different things, though the standards are maintained by the same people.

MNX is a way of encoding the music itself. It solves the problem of "I have some music notation I want to encode in a semantic format, so it can be analyzed/displayed/exported/imported/etc."

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odyssey72y ago

Thanks. If it isn't too many questions, are any layout concerns encodable in MNX, or is it scoped to semantic information only?

adrianhOP2y ago

Yes, the goal is to allow people to encode layout information optionally — as a separate layer from the semantic information.

odyssey72y ago

Much appreciated! This is excellent work.

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