Robert Patterson joined Adrian, Myke and Daniel for this meeting. Staff lines We discussed Adrian’s proposal for how to specify the number of lines in a staff, issue #531. We spent a lot of time discussing whether the information about … Continue reading →

SMuFL Daniel has (finally) been working on improving the tooling for working on the SMuFL specification to remove the reliance on the internal Django-based tool, so that it is easy for contributors to work on changes to the specification themselves. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

MusicXML The updated documentation site is up, and as of the last few days now also has search functionality. Work is continuing on the test infrastructure. Every commit now goes through a set of test that are meant to validate … Continue reading →

Myke was unable to attend this meeting due to travel commitments, so only Adrian and Daniel were in attendance for this session. Dynamics Measure repeats We haven’t had any community feedback on the proposal for measure repeats (#520), so Adrian … Continue reading →

Dynamics Adrian has added the work to date on dynamics to the specification. After further discussion in the meeting today, we have settled on a system that provides four dynamic types: immediate, gradual, relative, accent. For the case of fp … Continue reading →

Dynamics Following some feedback from Robert Patterson on our proposal for how to encode dynamics, we agreed that we would change gradual dynamics to express their extent using measure position instead of duration. This is both consistent with how octave … Continue reading →

Dynamics Adrian has put together a proposal for the encoding of dynamics (issue #518) which is now ready for community feedback. However, we quickly got involved in discussing the text object, and how it didn’t feel quite right that in … Continue reading →

Daniel, Adrian and Karim were unable to meet, but Karim has provided the following MusicXML update. MusicXML The new MusicXML docs site (issue #644) is fully functional and pending some cosmetic fixes before we can deploy it live. We’ve received … Continue reading →

MNX We began the meeting with a quick summary of the changes Adrian has made since our last meeting: Adrian has also updated MNX in notationref to account for these changes. We spent the majority of the time resuming our … Continue reading →