preliminary proposal: New Unicode characters for Arabic music half-flat and half-sharp

Petr Tomasek tomasek at etf.cuni.cz
Sat May 23 13:50:19 CDT 2015


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:07:38AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > That’s quite some variety. There are also the three-quarter flat and
> > sharp in Western music to consider.  I’ll be able to dig into this
> > after I get back to Ireland from Sweden on Friday.
> 
> You should check the Standard Music Font Layout (SmuFL) for details;
> it also has a freely available font that covers it.
> 
>   http://www.smufl.org
> 
> The recent version of the specification can be found at
> 
>   http://www.smufl.org/files/smufl-1.12.pdf
> 
>      Werner

Hm, it seems that there is much more to be encoded in Unicode than just
the quarter-tone signs...

Petr



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