Figured bass and time signature in text

[pfefferniels]

How should we encode figured bass (in particular stacks of figures) in TEI? The question of how time signatures can be encoded seems related to me.

[pfefferniels]

… and breaks

[rettinghaus]

How about using a g element and the edirom SMuFL-Browser: https://smufl-browser.edirom.de/index.html?range=Rests

[pfefferniels]

Yes, that looks good.

On the other hand: we could also just use the standard unicode characters (e.g. 𝄾 for an eighth note rest) and include a font like Bravura Text (as fallback font) to display it properly. That way we don't need to adapt the DTABf-ODD ...

[rettinghaus]

Sounds better 👍 BTW the edition looks ugly in some browsers, due to the reboot font settings of Bootstrap. We should use a specific font, that has all the glyphs we need. Haven't found a perfect one yet.

[pfefferniels]

Yes indeed – I was checking for good fonts as well, but it seems that none of them provides native uͤ/aͤ etc. characters …

[pfefferniels]

In some cases, we might want to use SMUFL-specific codepoints from the private-use area (e.g. for time signatures). Maybe we should enclose them with <g type="smufl">, e.g. <g type="smufl">󠄀󠄀&#xE09E;&#xE082;&#xE09F;&#xE084;</g> for a 2/4 time signature in order to avoid confusion about where those characters come from ...