MNX Adrian has spent some time reviewing the open issues in the MNX project. He has closed 35 issues, the majority of which required no action as they were older issues that are no longer relevant, but there were a … Continue reading →

MNX We have decided to migrate the doc generator tool from the MNX GitHub repository to its own repository, which the good people at W3C have created for us. The new repository is found at https://github.com/w3c-cg/mnxdocgenerator, but at the time … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has renamed the octave-shift object as ottava; in addition to renaming the object, the value describing the number of octaves shifted has now been specified, and the example MNX document has been updated accordingly. This was the last … Continue reading →

MNX Since there has been no further community discussion since our last meeting, we have decided to merge pull request #347, concerning accidental display. Adrian still has the changes required for the octave-shift object (#344) and updating the MNX converter … Continue reading →

MNX In our last meeting we discussed moving the staff number up from the clef object into the positioned clef object, and Adrian has made that change (git commit). Only a single example document (for grand staff instruments) was affected … Continue reading →

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 →