Re: SMuFL name mapping update, 9 July

[Karlin High]

On 7/9/2021 9:09 PM, Owen Lamb wrote:
> I've dropped in the next few Emmentaler categories (Default Noteheads, 
> Special Noteheads, and Shape-note Noteheads), so feel free to give it a 
> look at https://wolfgangsta.github.io/emmentaler-bravura/. Please let me 
> know what you think, especially regarding the red "contentious" cells!

I looked over the list, focusing on the shape notes. Nothing stood out 
to me as being wrong, although I have no skill for the font design 
concerns here.

It looks like the majority of the red=contentious cells for shape notes 
are in the Walker shapes. I am not aware there is a living music 
tradition or community still using these or the Funk ones, as there is 
for Aiken and Sacred Harp. The value of Walker and Funk shapes would 
mainly be for reproducing historical works.

Therefore, I would say feel free to do whatever makes sense and results 
in usable fonts. There is unlikely to be many "normal" users with 
highly-specific concerns for Walker shapes. And if someone is doing a 
labor-of-love scholarly historical reproduction of a Walker-heads work, 
it is doubtful this project can foresee what they would care about 
without having such an expert available at this point.

You are reaching a point where I am starting to go, "Eh, if Owen Lamb 
studied and designed something for LilyPond fonts, it's probably fine."
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Karlin High
Missouri, USA