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From: William Overington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:53 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: Re: What about musical notation?
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Does anyone know of any details of metal music type please?
William Overington
22 February 2001
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Edward
At 3:52 AM -0800 2/22/01, William Overington wrote:
Having been advised recently about accessing 21 bit unicode characters using
an example from musical notation, following up on that advice I have found
the document that details characters in the range U+1d100 to U+1d1ff,
entitled Musical
Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I suggest, therefore, that writing a downloadable TeX DVI renderer
plug-in for a Web browser is a more general long-term solution for
your application. Most of the code you would need is available as open
source in C. It would not surprise me if a DVI
One application at present would be so that fine quality type set
illustrations of music and mathematics could be produced by placing
that sequence of codes in the param statement of a java applet in a
web page.
You may have a look at Lilypond, which is a free musical typesetting
engine
Having been advised recently about accessing 21 bit unicode characters using
an example from musical notation, following up on that advice I have found
the document that details characters in the range U+1d100 to U+1d1ff,
entitled Musical Symbols.
I began wondering about how one would use
Am I right in thinking that in the days when hand set metal type on
printing
presses was the only method of printing that there were fonts of musical
type? I have never seen any font of such type myself, though I have seen
fonts for such non-text matters as chess sets and crossword
At 03:52 AM 2/22/2001 -0800, William Overington wrote:
Am I right in thinking that in the days when hand set metal type on printing
presses was the only method of printing that there were fonts of musical
type? I have never seen any font of such type myself, though I have seen
fonts for such
In a message dated 2001-02-22 04:30:20 Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, I am left wondering as to how unicode will be used to set music.
Unicode only provides the symbols -- the building blocks -- needed to set
music. The process of taking these building blocks and
At 07:58 -0800 2001-02-22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unicode only provides the symbols -- the building blocks -- needed to set
music. The process of taking these building blocks and creating a full
Wagner score (or folk tune) is a matter of three-dimensional layout, which is
outside the scope of
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From: William Overington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:53 AM
To: Unicode List
Subject: Re: What about musical notation?
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Does anyone know of any details of metal music type please?
William Overington
22 February 2001
In a (private) message dated 2001-02-22 08:47:26 Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wagner score (or folk tune) is a matter of three-dimensional
layout, which is outside the scope of Unicode.
You probably meant *bi*-dimensional layout, right?
Of course I did. Duh.
At 04:44 AM 2/22/01, Lukas Pietsch wrote:
As far as I know, music printing with mobile letters of this kind was
indeed done, mostly back in the 16th/17th century. There were "letters"
which each represented one fragment of a stave with one or several
noteheads on them. It tended to look pretty
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I read the code approved (but not released yet), but exists a deficiency
(from my point of view) and giving to Perry Roland all my admiration for
the excellent work:
-Talking strictly about the notes; the convention approved
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:20:21PM -0800, Erik Garr?s wrote:
Why the improvement?: To be able to store music (not symbols) in a condensed
format into electronic media, so the players will "talk" what is written in
"muscial language" (like some software do speaking phrases in some
Hello,
I think Mr. Garres means the western musical notation invented in the 1200s, which is
very widely, if not universally, used today.
Unicode 3.0 actually already has at least 2 older forms of musical notation in the
main Hebrew block and somewhere in the Arabic block---they are signs for
Text on spanish and english
Texto en español e inglés
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Leí el código aprovado (pero aún no liberado), pero existe una deficiencia
(a mi parecer) y sin menospreciar el excelente trabajo de Perry Roland:
-Hablando
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Erik Garrs wrote:
First of all, excuse my English.
I would like to know, why the symbols used for music are not listed on
UNICODE ? Because music is the world-wide manner of communication and
expression.
Does anybody agree ? I would like to know what you think !
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