Co-chair meeting: May 11, 2021
MusicXML 4.0
Michael has opened and closed issue #403 concerning adding a SMuFL attribute to child elements of the percussion element to accommodate a wider range of pictograms for percussion instruments, specifically the stylistic alternates for some of them. The pull request (#404) implements this and also includes the necessary updates to the documentation.
There has been some discussion on the proposal in #401 to deprecate the DTDs with the release of MusicXML 4.0, and based on the feedback received from the development community Michael has decided to postpone this decision to a future version.
Issue #106, concerning a clarification of notes of different durations on the same stem, now has an example to show how this should be encoded in MusicXML and has now been closed.
We appealed for feedback concerning issue #280 for tips for using code generation with MusicXML, and we have received some good feedback that can now be incorporated into the tutorial to help future developers.
There are a few issues remaining with the docgenerator tool that are causing some minor hold-ups in the completion of the documentation, and Michael and Adrian will get together later this week to try to unblock the remaining work. Michael has also created a pull request (#234) in the MNX repository to update the docgenerator tool with some changes that are necessary for anybody else in the community who wants to build the MusicXML documentation for themselves, and Adrian will review and hopefully merge that pull request soon.
Michael has added the MusicXML 4.0 version history into the current draft of the documentation with links to not only all of the issues involved but also directly to the affected elements, which will make it very easy to look at the changes in detail.
MNX
Adrian has been making some further changes to the docgenerator tool to accommodate the new visual design introduced for MusicXML into MNX, and has made a start on moving material from the old Bikeshed spec into the new system, though this is throwing up some questions about how to split up the information that needs further thought. You can see the new visual design in the current draft here.
Next meeting
The next co-chairs’ meeting will be in two weeks on Tuesday 25 May.
