Forthcoming Community Group meeting Everybody in the Community Group is invited to attend a virtual meeting on Tuesday 17 March 2026 at 4pm UTC (5pm CET, 11am EST, 8am PST). This meeting will give the first opportunity to hear from … Continue reading →

MNX For applications that need hints for the encoding of ties across repeat endings or other non-contiguous notes (issue #476), we have now added a targetType attribute to the tie object. For encoding whole measure/bar rests (issue #475) we propose … Continue reading →

MNX We discussed some of the issues and discussions that have been raised by members of the community in the last little while: Next meeting The next co-chairs meeting is scheduled for Monday 12 January 2026.

MusicXML We discussed the candidates for the MusicXML specification editor position, and both the depth and quality of commitment of this community to MusicXML impressed us and warmed our spirits. The co-chairs will be contacting candidates in due course to … Continue reading →

MNX With regard to the proposal for formatted text (discussion #459), the co-chairs plan to go ahead with the current proposal. We’re grateful for the feedback we’ve already received, but of course welcome more from the community. The next question … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has merged the branch for multi-note tremolo support (issue #119), after adding the things that we discussed in our previous meeting, including the changes to the visual notehead, the number of marks, and so on. Adrian also updated … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has reviewed the four original “infrastructure” pages in the MNX specification, which were holdovers from the original version of the specification written by former co-chair Joe Berkovitz. Two of them have been removed, leaving two: Notational concepts, which … Continue reading →

MNX All dictionary objects in MNX can now have a _c object (comment), which can be a string. Adrian has added some comments to a few of the examples by means of demonstration (e.g. here). Adrian has also added the … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has added support for attributes common to all objects to the doc generator, which allows us to define id on all objects. For the time being, these common attributes also have common requirements across all objects; in the … Continue reading →

MNX Adrian has renamed the keys in the interval object to halfSteps and staffDistance as agreed, including updating the other places in the specification where it is mentioned and the examples. He’s also added a note to the documentation for … Continue reading →