@prko Thanks a lot for your ideas! It’s awesome to see people digging into this lesser-explored area in SC.
I believe one of the factors impeding this progress is the presence of numerous quirks within musical notation. Implementation tends to mirror the contributor’s personal composition style and techniques at the time, which may not fit other composer visions.
In the real world, what composers truly crave is a means to manipulate their material. It’s only after this manipulation that the material takes on its visual form, whether it’s in the shape of MusicXML, Lily, Guido, or another standard.
As an arbitrary example, recently I came across a fascinating paper that explores different techniques for manipulating and constructing music scores here
If the intention is to expand the standard library, a comprehensive evaluation of all these aspects becomes essential. What’s needed is a neutral system that facilitates seamless integration with other intermediary systems.
We have to be clear about the best approach for this.
Just my opinion.