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  2. 1. Preamble
    1. 1.1. Acknowledgements
    2. 1.2. License
    3. 1.3. Version history
  3. 2. About SMuFL
    1. 2.1. A brief history of music fonts
    2. 2.2. How SMuFL is organised
    3. 2.3. Recommended characters and optional glyphs
    4. 2.4. Implementations
    5. 2.5. Sources for symbols
    6. 2.6. Other contributors
    7. 2.7. Missing symbols
  4. 3. Specification
    1. 3.1. Metadata for SMuFL glyphs and ranges
      1. 3.1.1. glyphnames.json
      2. 3.1.2. classes.json
      3. 3.1.3. ranges.json
    2. 3.2. Designing for scoring applications and text-based applications
    3. 3.3. Metrics and glyph registration for scoring applications
    4. 3.4. Metadata for SMuFL-compliant fonts
      1. 3.4.1. engravingDefaults
      2. 3.4.2. glyphAdvanceWidths
      3. 3.4.3. glyphsWithAnchors
      4. 3.4.4. glyphsWithAlternates
      5. 3.4.5. glyphBBoxes
      6. 3.4.6. ligatures
      7. 3.4.7. sets
      8. 3.4.8. optionalGlyphs
    5. 3.5. Example of glyph registration for notes with flags
    6. 3.6. Bounding box cut-outs
    7. 3.7. Repeat offsets
    8. 3.8. Aligning noteheads horizontally
    9. 3.9. Aligning dynamics with noteheads and stems
    10. 3.10. Metrics and glyph registration for text-based applications
    11. 3.11. Font-specific metadata locations
  5. 4. Glyph tables
    1. 4.1. Staff brackets and dividers
    2. 4.2. Staves
    3. 4.3. Barlines
    4. 4.4. Repeats
    5. 4.5. Clefs
    6. 4.6. Time signatures
    7. 4.7. Noteheads
    8. 4.8. Slash noteheads
    9. 4.9. Round and square noteheads
    10. 4.10. Note clusters
    11. 4.11. Note name noteheads
    12. 4.12. Shape note noteheads
    13. 4.13. Individual notes
    14. 4.14. Beamed groups of notes
    15. 4.15. Stems
    16. 4.16. Tremolos
    17. 4.17. Flags
    18. 4.18. Standard accidentals (12-EDO)
    19. 4.19. Gould arrow quartertone accidentals (24-EDO)
    20. 4.20. Stein-Zimmermann accidentals (24-EDO)
    21. 4.21. Extended Stein-Zimmermann accidentals
    22. 4.22. Sims accidentals (72-EDO)
    23. 4.23. Johnston accidentals (just intonation)
    24. 4.24. Extended Helmholtz-Ellis accidentals (just intonation)
    25. 4.25. Spartan Sagittal single-shaft accidentals
    26. 4.26. Spartan Sagittal multi-shaft accidentals
    27. 4.27. Athenian Sagittal extension (medium precision) accidentals
    28. 4.28. Trojan Sagittal extension (12-EDO relative) accidentals
    29. 4.29. Promethean Sagittal extension (high precision) single-shaft accidentals
    30. 4.30. Promethean Sagittal extension (high precision) multi-shaft accidentals
    31. 4.31. Herculean Sagittal extension (very high precision) accidental diacritics
    32. 4.32. Olympian Sagittal extension (extreme precision) accidental diacritics
    33. 4.33. Magrathean Sagittal extension (insane precision) accidental diacritics
    34. 4.34. Wyschnegradsky accidentals (72-EDO)
    35. 4.35. Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek (AEU) accidentals
    36. 4.36. Turkish folk music accidentals
    37. 4.37. Persian accidentals
    38. 4.38. Other accidentals
    39. 4.39. Articulation
    40. 4.40. Holds and pauses
    41. 4.41. Rests
    42. 4.42. Bar repeats
    43. 4.43. Octaves
    44. 4.44. Dynamics
    45. 4.45. Lyrics
    46. 4.46. Common ornaments
    47. 4.47. Other baroque ornaments
    48. 4.48. Combining strokes for trills and mordents
    49. 4.49. Precomposed trills and mordents
    50. 4.50. Brass techniques
    51. 4.51. Wind techniques
    52. 4.52. String techniques
    53. 4.53. Plucked techniques
    54. 4.54. Vocal techniques
    55. 4.55. Keyboard techniques
    56. 4.56. Harp techniques
    57. 4.57. Tuned mallet percussion pictograms
    58. 4.58. Chimes pictograms
    59. 4.59. Drums pictograms
    60. 4.60. Wooden struck or scraped percussion pictograms
    61. 4.61. Metallic struck percussion pictograms
    62. 4.62. Bells pictograms
    63. 4.63. Cymbals pictograms
    64. 4.64. Gongs pictograms
    65. 4.65. Shakers or rattles pictograms
    66. 4.66. Whistles and aerophones pictograms
    67. 4.67. Miscellaneous percussion instrument pictograms
    68. 4.68. Beaters pictograms
    69. 4.69. Percussion playing technique pictograms
    70. 4.70. Handbells
    71. 4.71. Guitar
    72. 4.72. Chord diagrams
    73. 4.73. Analytics
    74. 4.74. Chord symbols
    75. 4.75. Tuplets
    76. 4.76. Conductor symbols
    77. 4.77. Accordion
    78. 4.78. Beams and slurs
    79. 4.79. Medieval and Renaissance staves
    80. 4.80. Medieval and Renaissance clefs
    81. 4.81. Medieval and Renaissance prolations
    82. 4.82. Medieval and Renaissance noteheads and stems
    83. 4.83. Medieval and Renaissance individual notes
    84. 4.84. Medieval and Renaissance oblique forms
    85. 4.85. Medieval and Renaissance plainchant single-note forms
    86. 4.86. Medieval and Renaissance plainchant multiple-note forms
    87. 4.87. Medieval and Renaissance plainchant articulations
    88. 4.88. Medieval and Renaissance accidentals
    89. 4.89. Medieval and Renaissance rests
    90. 4.90. Medieval and Renaissance miscellany
    91. 4.91. Medieval and Renaissance symbols in CMN
    92. 4.92. Daseian notation
    93. 4.93. Figured bass
    94. 4.94. Function theory symbols
    95. 4.95. Multi-segment lines
    96. 4.96. Electronic music pictograms
    97. 4.97. Arrows and arrowheads
    98. 4.98. Combining staff positions
    99. 4.99. Renaissance lute tablature
    100. 4.100. French and English Renaissance lute tablature
    101. 4.101. Italian and Spanish Renaissance lute tablature
    102. 4.102. German Renaissance lute tablature
    103. 4.103. Kievan square notation
    104. 4.104. Kodály hand signs
    105. 4.105. Simplified Music Notation
    106. 4.106. Miscellaneous symbols
    107. 4.107. Time signatures supplement
    108. 4.108. Octaves supplement
    109. 4.109. Metronome marks
    110. 4.110. Figured bass supplement
    111. 4.111. Shape note noteheads supplement
    112. 4.112. Turned time signatures
    113. 4.113. Reversed time signatures
    114. 4.114. Function theory symbols supplement
    115. 4.115. Fingering
    116. 4.116. Arabic accidentals
    117. 4.117. Articulation supplement
    118. 4.118. Stockhausen accidentals (24-EDO)
    119. 4.119. Standard accidentals for chord symbols
    120. 4.120. Clefs supplement
    121. 4.121. Fingering supplement
    122. 4.122. Kahnotation
    123. 4.123. German organ tablature
    124. 4.124. Extended Helmholtz-Ellis accidentals (just intonation) supplement
    125. 4.125. Other accidentals supplement
    126. 4.126. Techniques noteheads
    127. 4.127. Chop (percussive bowing) notation
    128. 4.128. Medieval and Renaissance prolations supplement
    129. 4.129. Noteheads supplement
    130. 4.130. Note name noteheads supplement
    131. 4.131. Scale degrees

Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL)

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