RE: How to Add Beams to Notes

[Michael Bear via Unicode]

“Rather than using "unused code positions", I would always recommend to use 
some of the Private Use code points.”
Consider it done.

“What is the intended usage of your font? Music score 
applications? others?”
I am simply going to make a series of full Unicode fonts (which, due to the 
65,535-character limit in fonts, each of the 3 fonts covers different planes: 
The first font does the BMP, the second one does the SMP, and the third one is 
all the other planes, which are vacant enough to fit in one font) that will 
have the necessary OpenType features of every script. And I thought “Hey, maybe 
I should do full OT for the music block that no one has really done yet! How 
awesome would that be?” So I made a test font to work it out, but I ran into 
this one pothole. That’s when I came here.

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CSUR and UCSUR glyphs

[Michael Bear via Unicode]

I need some help with the glyphs from the 
CSUR and 
UCSUR.

Some of the glyphs were no problem, such as the Tengwar and Cirth ones, because 
their pages actually show the glyphs on their pages.
Others do not, which poses a bit of a problem. Some of them have links to other 
sites that are intended to show the glyphs, but most of those links are 
outdated and lead to 404s. I could just pull up an archived version with the 
Wayback machine (web.archive.org), and for some of them, this works, but most 
of them don’t have any saved versions.
I could just do a Google search to find out what the characters look like, but 
many of the scripts are too obscure to get anything reliable out of that Google 
search. I’m making a font with everything in the UCSUR, and this is a major 
obstacle I must overcome. So do you guys know where I could get glyph shapes 
for most of these scripts?

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10.0 Code Charts

[Michael Bear via Unicode]

When are the code charts (http://www.unicode.org/charts/) going to be updated 
for Unicode 10.0?

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How to Add Beams to Notes

[Michael Bear via Unicode]

I am trying to make a music notation font. It will use the Musical Symbols 
block in Unicode (1D100-1D1FF), but, since that block has a bad rep for not 
being very complete, I added some extra characters in the unmapped positions of 
that block (e.g. U+1D127 inverts the stem of the previous note, U+1D1E9 is a 
ledger line, U+1D1EA is the "TAB" clef, U+1D1F0-U+1D1FC position the note along 
the staff, etc.) I've had no problem so far, but now I need to do beamed notes. 
The Unicode block has control characters for beginning and ending a series of 
beamed notes (U+1D173 and U+1D174, respectively), but I'm not really sure how 
to add beams to the notes while keeping the pitch intact. I know I'll obviously 
need OpenType for this. Slanted beams would be preferred, but straight beams 
are acceptable. It will need to support beams added on for longer notes. Can 
someone help me with this?

I had asked this on a High Logic Font Creator forum 
(here), and someone said 
to subscribe to your mailing list and ask you guys. So here I am! Anyway, help, 
please?

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RE: How to Add Beams to Notes

[Michael Bear via Unicode]

Additionally, I will only do OT features that are absolutely necessary for a 
certain script, not unnecessary (although stylish!) features, e.g. I will 
include things like mark positioning and init/medi/fina forms for Arabic, while 
leaving out small caps, swashes, and extensive ligatures. (In an earlier post, 
I might have said I’ll do ALL of the possible OT features. If so, I misspoke.)
But if the cry for space gets REALLY desperate, I’ll merge identical glyphs 
into one glyph. Obviously, I won’t do this for more problematic merges, only 
glyphs in similar scripts with similar features. (e.g. I would represent Latin 
small letter o, Greek small letter omicron, Cyrillic small letter o, Armenian 
letter oh, and Georgian labial sign with one glyph, while Hebrew letter samekh 
and Arabic letter ae, despite also being circular, would be two separate 
glyphs.) But I’ll only do this if I really need to.

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Sutton SignWriting PDF

[Michael Bear via Unicode]

If I open the Sutton SignWriting code chart in Mozilla Firefox, the glyphs in 
the tables are blank. I have no idea why. If I open it in Microsoft Edge, 
however, it works fine. Do you know why this is?

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RE: How to Add Beams to Notes

[Michael Bear via Unicode]

“How much margin do you have for the BMP?  There are a fair few
variation sequences, on top of all the contextual forms and conjuncts.”

I plan to do everything in the plane EXCEPT for the surrogates, which you’re 
not supposed to encode in fonts anyway, which leaves room for about 2,048 more 
glyphs for OpenType features.

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