MNX Specification Working Group meeting: July 28, 2026

Dynamics

We were very pleased to receive a pull request from new contributor, Owen Williams, who identified a problem with the storage of the dynamic constants.

Measure repeats

The work on encoding measure repeats (issue #520) has been incorporated into the spec, including some new example documents (here and here).

Pointing

We discussed at some length the issue around the pointing object in strong accent (issue #525), and we believe that this is directionally correct. We think that making it possible to define an arbitrary glyph is not really right: it’s not really helpful to be able to define, say, a clef glyph to appear for a marcato. We propose that we should address this on a per-object basis, and use an appropriate term for each object, rather than trying to force everything to fit this single term.

We are also considering whether the term orient to describe whether an item is placed above or below the staff should be changed: upon reflection it feels as if placement (as used in MusicXML) would be clearer.

Next meeting

The next working group meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 11 August 2026.