Font support for SMuFL symbols to create visual swing markings

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#21,590 opened on Feb 19, 2024 1 comment 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Domain: desktop

Research direction

Start by locating MuseScore's default music symbol font and the rendering path for text-based swing markings. Use the listed SMuFL individual-note and beamed-group symbols as the scope; done means common swing eighth- and sixteenth-note markings, with or without joined beams and tuplets, display correctly.

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Description

feature request

Your idea

SMuFL has a "Beamed groups of notes (U+E1F0–U+E20F)" block with symbols specifically designed for metric modulation and swing markings (See "Implementation notes" in the aforementioned SMuFL page and this "How to" page from MuseScore forum).

Currently, MuseScore's default music symbol font does not support these symbols, and thus swing markings created with them cannot be displayed correctly and appropriately.

I would like these symbols to be added so the common visual swing markings can be easily created in MuseScore.

Problem to be solved

Help create common visual swing markings.

Prior art

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Additional context

Minimum symbol set required to create the common swing markings (swing 8th notes and swing 16th notes with or without a joined beam):

Individual notes (U+E1D0–U+E1EF) Block

U+E1D7 (and U+1D160), note8thUp
U+E1D9 (and U+1D161), note16thUp

Beamed groups of notes (U+E1F0–U+E20F) Block

U+E1F1, textBlackNoteLongStem
U+E1F8, textCont8thBeamLongStem
U+E1F3, textBlackNoteFrac8thLongStem
U+E1F5, textBlackNoteFrac16thLongStem
U+E1F8, textCont8thBeamLongStem
U+E1FA, textCont16thBeamLongStem
U+E201, textTupletBracketStartLongStem
U+E202, textTuplet3LongStem
U+E203, textTupletBracketEndLongStem

Note: The tuplet bracket symbols should come after the note symbols.

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