Community Group meeting: Thursday 15 September 2022 We have had confirmation from the organisers of TPAC 2022 that the Music Notation Community Group meeting will take place as part of the conference proceedings on Thursday 15 September 2022 at 0800 … Continue reading →

MNX The co-chairs had a productive discussion to guide the initial proposals for issue #34, concerning the differences between score and part layouts. Adrian had identified five specific areas that should certainly be considered: note spelling; stem direction; initial clefs; … Continue reading →

MNX Pull request #282 which addresses the proposal for styling of MNX elements (issue #263) has been merged. You can read the specification for the style element here, and Adrian has also provided some examples of styling: Basic styling Styling … Continue reading →

MNX At our last meeting we asked for feedback from the community concerning the proposed change to the styling proposal to unify the element and class attributes for the style element (pull request #282). The feedback we received was positive, … Continue reading →

MNX Pull request #282 concerning the proposals for styling (issue #263) continues to attract some good feedback. In particular, Samuel Bradshaw suggested that instead of using separate attributes for element and class, MNX could instead use a single selector attribute … Continue reading →

MNX The co-chairs would welcome some more feedback on pull request #282, which has as yet attracted surprisingly little engagement from the community. This is an important aspect of the MNX specification, and we want to be sure that the community … Continue reading →

In-person Community Group meetings It was recently announced that Musikmesse 2022, which had been scheduled for 29 April–1 May 2022, has been cancelled, and the B2B part of the fair has been cancelled permanently. The co-chairs are considering some alternative … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 We have now implemented the GitHub Discussions feature for the MusicXML repository as agreed at the last co-chair meeting. If you have any questions about MusicXML, or any announcements about products adding support for MusicXML, please make use … Continue reading →

MusicXML We have decided to enable the Discussions feature on GitHub for the MusicXML repository. This is intended to be a place for questions about MusicXML, but not bug reports in the specification or documentation, or proposals for new features: … Continue reading →

In-person Community Group meetings It appears unlikely that we will be able to plan to get together at an in-person event this coming spring. There is still uncertainty over whether events like Musikmesse in Frankfurt and The NAMM Show in … Continue reading →