Co-chair meeting minutes: April 24, 2025

MNX

Adrian has made the changes we discussed in the last meeting that the event type object is optional. This has been removed from all of the example documents, and in our estimation this feels much better, and cuts down significantly on bloat.

In relation to discussion #402, Adrian has made the change that sideEnd no longer has an implied default value; it’s now up to the application to decide.

Per discussion #418, Robert Patterson has released a version of his denigma tool for handling Finale MUSX files.

Related to discussion #420, Adrian plans to extract the MNX example documents from the document generator tool and add them as separate files in the repository so that they can be accessed simply by cloning the MNX repository.

Adrian has also updated the MNX viewer to validate against the JSON schema, and will show validation errors. There is still much more to do on which notations are supported by the MNX viewer, but having proper validation is a good step forwards.

We also discused the ongoing conversation around the encoding of beams (issues #399 and #419, among others), and we will provide some further thoughts in response to this issue in due course.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs’ meeting is scheduled for Thursday 8 May 2025.