Musical sizes and positions

[MAZ06]

I've noticed that there are many music glyphs that are very different sizes and in strange positions.

U+1D132 is really small. U+1D130 and U+1D131 are positioned very low. There are several more music glyphs that have these issues.

[Mercury13]

Actually so small in Noto Music. And so small in Unicode chart. Noto Music tends to use actual character sizes — look at G clef, it’s really big, I was forced to use a fixup font! And Noto Music is probably SMuFL compatible but IDK. SMuFL is a side-standard for musical fonts. Close?

[Mercury13]

SMuFL says they should be equal in size. I’m not a musician.

[MAZ06]

I think all notation should be equal in size. I would trust SMuFL on this.

[Mercury13]

Then ask Noto Music. I would use Bravura as a new font, but it has no 25CC, and has no new characters of Persian music.

[MAZ06]

Can you link to where SMuFL says they should be equal in size? I'll include it in my issue for Noto Music.

[MAZ06]

Just found a strange issue... Unicodia: Noto Music:

[Mercury13]

I didn’t even think about misc. characters compliant with music. Also Noto Music is much taller.

[Mercury13]

@MAZ06 Here are standard accidentals: flat, sharp etc., https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/standard-accidentals-12-edo.html

Here are other accidentals: 4-sharp and 4-flat https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/other-accidentals.html

[MAZ06]

Thanks.

This is also an issue. Too tall for the box.

[Mercury13]

About 1/128th note — I won’t fix. Too small of issue. I’ll really enlarge Byzantine music and fit it into smaller box.

[Mercury13]

@MAZ06 Let’s make a complete list for ME:

1. Take five notes from Noto Music and put them to Misc chars.
2. Add fixup glyphs for micro-sharp/flat,
3. Enlarge a bit Byzantine and squeeze into small window (already OK).

Do not:

1. Do anything for 1/128th note.

OK?

[MAZ06]

What do you mean "Misc. chars"?

[Mercury13]

@MAZ06 Actually seven: 2669 to 266F.

[Mercury13]

2. Decided to check what to do. The character is so rare that I’ll better refuse to change it. Even researchers did not see it in the wild. :(