Updates on existing work We also agreed that in order to accelerate the pace of development, we will move towards merging pull requests after a few days provided there has been no strong objection, rather than waiting for the next … Continue reading →

MusicXML Karim continues to work on roadmap items for MusicXML 4.1. There has been some good feedback for the special interest groups for microtonality and instrument techniques. Karim is still hoping to get some traction for a special interest group … Continue reading →

Viritura Robert reported that he has been working with Peter Yang on making it possible to translate Finale .musx files into Viritura using MNX, producing a gap report that identifies areas where encoding isn’t yet possible. Previous business Following up … Continue reading →

MusicXML Karim’s idea to establish special interest groups attracted lots of attention, and two special interest groups are now set up: Karim has created special categories within the Discussions area on GitHub for each of the new special interest groups, … Continue reading →

Staff lines Work on specifying the number of staff lines (pull request #548, issue #531) is now complete. It’s now possible to specify zero as the number of staff lines. We agreed that the pull request can be merged. There … Continue reading →

MusicXML Karim has been working on items from the roadmap. Progress can be slower than expected because of the hidden complexities that tackling even superficially simple-looking issues can reveal, but this is all good and interesting work. Karim is considering … Continue reading →

New domain The MNX specification can now be found at the domain mnx.formats.music. (SMuFL can be found at smufl.formats.music, and MusicXML at musicxml.formats.music.) Doc generator The MNX doc generator tool no longer requires a back-end database or a web site … Continue reading →

Robert Patterson joined Adrian, Myke and Daniel for this meeting. Staff lines We discussed Adrian’s proposal for how to specify the number of lines in a staff, issue #531. We spent a lot of time discussing whether the information about … Continue reading →

SMuFL Daniel has (finally) been working on improving the tooling for working on the SMuFL specification to remove the reliance on the internal Django-based tool, so that it is easy for contributors to work on changes to the specification themselves. … Continue reading →

Dynamics We were very pleased to receive a pull request from new contributor, Owen Williams, who identified a problem with the storage of the dynamic constants. Measure repeats The work on encoding measure repeats (issue #520) has been incorporated into … Continue reading →