MNX Adrian has added an example MNX document for grand staff instruments, illustrating three key aspects: the part object has a staves object to specify the number of staves, each sequence needs to specify which staff it belongs to, and … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has documented that staves are numbered using a 1-based system (git commit). Adrian has made a change to the specification to remove the micro-syntax for measure location, which was used in six different places in the spec. He … Continue reading →

MNX In our last meeting we discussed changes to cautionary accidentals in order to focus on encoding their appearance rather than their semantics, and Adrian has now implemented this via a new enumeration in accidental-display, allowing us to encode that … Continue reading →

MNX Following on from our last meeting, Adrian has resolved the existing cases where enumerations had the duplicate value none. The affected enumerations were staffSymbol (where none has been replaced with noSymbol), tupletDisplaySetting (noNumber) and barlineType (noBarline). Paul Overell identified … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has been working on some issues opened by Yuriy Kravets: Myke pointed out that it might be preferable to have more specific values than “none” for enumerations, since “none” can be a special keyword in several languages (typically … Continue reading →

MNX We’ve started to feel that a good chunk of the “bones” of MNX are becoming reasonably stable — so Adrian has put together an initial version of a live MNX viewer: https://www.soundslice.com/mnx-viewer/ This tool lets you enter raw MNX … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has improved the doc generator system to handle enumerations (issue #321), and the automatically generated JSON schema now also includes this information, so that all the allowable values for string-based types are specified. There were a couple of … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has merged the pull request #322 for event markings: MNX now supports 11 types of markings in the event object. Adrian has added support to the MNX converter for importing these markings from MusicXML. In issue #323, Myke … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has created a pull request (#322) to address issue #103 with a proposal for the encoding of 11 different markings, including all the MusicXML articulations (with the exception of the markings that should be note-specific, namely the jazz … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has been continuing to think about how to encode articulations (issue #103). In order to side-step the issue of determining once and for all what constitutes an articulation, which could be a controversial issue, he is proposing that … Continue reading →