Co-chair meeting minutes: December 6, 2022

MNX

There has been some good discussion around the proposal for how to represent differences in note spelling between layouts (issue #287), though as yet no winner has emerged. The current front-runner is some variation on Adrian’s proposed Option 2, which encodes the shift from the sounding pitch to the written pitch using a pair of diatonic/chromatic values, and an optional “part-accidental” attribute to specify whether it should be visible independently from the accidental for the unshifted pitch. Adrian will produce some examples using this approach in a pull request for further discussion.

Consensus has at least developed around changing the representation of pitch in MNX to be sounding pitch rather than written pitch, so Adrian proposes making this change to the specification and to the examples (only the octave lines examples would really be affected).

Adrian has written up a proposal for cleaning up the redundancy in the accidental attribute in issue #288, and further community feedback is welcomed.

Next meeting

Due to the forthcoming holiday period, the next co-chairs’ meeting will be on 3 January 2023.