Octave shifts in MNX-Common We have so far only had one comment on pull request #158, concerning a request to be more precise about the effect the octave-shift element has on both written and sounding pitch. It can be argued … Continue reading →

MNX-Common by Example Adrian has been working on how octave shifts should be handled in MNX-Common, and has prepared a pull request #158 to address issue #111, which covers both the specification for and examples of the proposed octave-shift element. … Continue reading →

MNX-Common by Example Adrian has added a section on time signatures to the MNX-Common by Example page to illustrate the approach MNX-Common takes to time signatures, showing how time signatures are shown in the global element. The co-chairs discussed whether … Continue reading →

Splitting MNX-Common and MNX-Generic The MNX-Common and MNX-Generic specs have now been split and the pull request merged back to the master branch. The MNX-Common by Example page is also now part of the main MNX-Common repository and is linked … Continue reading →

MNX-Common by Example Adrian’s colleague Edward has made a responsive design for the MNX-Common by Example page, which looks good. The next steps are to merge this page to the MNX repository, and then to expand with further examples. Splitting … Continue reading →

DAISY Braille Music working group Following our last meeting, Michael worked through the issues submitted by the DAISY Braille music working group and sent a detailed response to project coordinator Sarah Morley Wilkins, Matthias Leopold, and Haipeng Hu. We are … Continue reading →

Clarifying effect of octave lines on written pitch The co-chairs agreed that pull request #152 is ready to merge in. Consensus is that octave lines do have an effect on the way the pitch is encoded, so if you have … Continue reading →

GitHub infrastructure Following some confusion with pull requests on the MNX repository, Adrian has been discussing with Joe how we should handle the branches on the MNX repository. Joe originally set up a Travis CI job on the master branch … Continue reading →

MNX-Common Discussion of #4. Adrian will post a comment saying that we are going to encode written pitch. He’ll follow it up with a pull request to change the spec to fill that part in. Initial pull request will clarify … Continue reading →