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Hi Jane, I don't know much about SVG, but I do know that SVG has defined an extended version of the DOM as part of their specification. So I would imagine that you would create an SVGDocument object from your program. You should be able to treat it the same way as the DOM object, but also be able to...

Hi Paul, SVG is a vector graphics format that includes text. So in theory it should be sufficient for rendering music notation. CSS is a text-oriented stylesheet. I suspect one could do some notation using CSS and music fonts, but it doesn't seem so appropriate for slurs, crescendos, and other types...

Hi Paul, Glad to hear it's working! If it is not too long, would you mind posting a short example of a Batik-friendly SVG file for music? Note that Western musical symbols were added in Unicode 3.1 - and in a character set range that goes beyond what was used in previous versions of Unicode. So whil...

Dolet for Finale 1.0.4 is now available via - Importing a MusicXML into an empty file with system locks now works successfully. - Numeric measure number regions are now supported for export and import. - Custom dashed lines are now exported. - Key signature cancellation is now supported. - Added deg...

Regarding music fonts and SVG: While many of Maestro's glyphs are in the ASCII space, many are up in the ISO-8859-1 space. These are represented by a single 8-bit byte in ISO-8859-1, but as a multiple-byte sequence in UTF-8. So make sure that your XML encoding matches the real encoding of your file ...

Has anyone used the MusicXML <cancel> element yet for cancelling key signatures? Now that Finale 2003 gives plug-ins the ability to write as well as read the relevant document options for this feature, we're planning to add it to the upcoming Dolet maintenance release. In the process, we found that ...

Hi Ben, Well, I think you've heard from all the people that I know of who are looking at an SVG renderer for MusicXML. We will be investigating DRM issues for MusicXML soon. It's a high priority issue for the publishing side of our business. There's lots of DRM and security work going on within the ...

Hi Kevin, Thanks for this information and the references! We're currently not planning to have separate elements for a drop vs. a spill, but rather use attributes to distinguish the different graphics like a straight vs. curved and regular vs. wavy lines. Sometimes the terminology varies between roc...

A couple of logistical changes to this discussion list: 1) The archives have moved from what was originally announced. You may now find them at: http://lists.recordare.com/MusicXML The username and password remain the same as in your introductory message. 2) Now that we've had our substantial discus...

Thanks, Paul. It's interesting that Read has "rip" and "lift" used as a synonym for what we are currently calling a "scoop", rather than as a synonym for "plop". On the Finale list the votes have so far come in for "plop" and "kiss" in terms of current usage. So far our initial proposal - scoop, fal...