MNX Specification Working Group meeting: May 12, 2026

MNX

We began the meeting with a quick summary of the changes Adrian has made since our last meeting:

• pointing now has an auto value;
• accents no longer have pointing;
• fermatas now have pointing;
• event.markings now all have an orient attribute that specifies whether they are above or below the staff;
• we now have a bow-direction marking;
• arpeggios (and non-arpeggios) are now implemented.

Adrian has also updated MNX in notationref to account for these changes.

We spent the majority of the time resuming our discussion about the representation of dynamics, with a particular focus on how gradual dynamics (hairpins, cresc., dim., etc.) should be encoded. After some lively discussion, we arrived at consensus on an approach that Adrian will write up for community discussion in the coming days.

Next meeting

The next MNX specification working group meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 26 May 2026.