<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Hi Andrew, </p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Thanks for your reply! Maybe it's not actually inconsistent, but here is an example that's puzzling at first glance (from <a href="http://music-encoding.org/sampleCollection/encodings/Altenburg_concerto_C_major.xml">Altenburg_concerto_C_major.xml</a>):</p>
<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><staffGrp></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> <staffGrp barthru="false" symbol="bracket"><br>
<staffDef n="2" label="Clarino 1-1.Chor" /><br> <staffDef n="3" label="Clarino 2-1.Chor" /><br> <staffDef n="4" label="Prinzipal-Chor 1" /><br>
</staffGrp><br> <staffGrp barthru="false" symbol="bracket"><br> <staffDef n="5" label="Clarino 1-2.Chor"/><br> <staffDef n="6" label="Clarino 2-2.Chor"/><br>
<staffDef n="7" label="Prinzipal-2.Chor"/><br>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </staffGrp><br> <staffDef n="8" label="Timpani in C-G"/><br></staffGrp><br>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">It seems it assumes @barthru=true as default since it only uses barthru explicitly when the value is "false" - however, it wouldn't make much sense to have @barthru true in the outer staff group and false in the inner staff group; and the accompanying <a href="http://music-encoding.org/sampleCollection/encodings/Altenburg_concerto_C_major.pdf">.pdf</a> proves that the editor surely didn't mean to indicated that. </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>Do you mean that it should be specified in the guidelines whether the absence of </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>@barthru means true or false by default?</span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Yes, that's what I meant, please see my answer re Thomas Weber's reply in the following email!</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Zoltan</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">P.S.: following Andrew's suggestion I am moving this discussion from mei-devel to MEI-L </p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/21 Andrew Hankinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca" target="_blank">andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Zoltan,<div><br></div>
<div>Could you give an example of how the @barthru attribute is inconsistently used? Do you mean that it should be specified in the guidelines whether the absence of @barthru means true or false by default? I think it's safe to assume that the absence of it is an implicit false value.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, perhaps this discussion can be moved to the MEI-L mailing list?</div><div><br></div><div>-Andrew</div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-06-21, at 12:42 PM, Zoltan Komives <<a href="mailto:zoltan.komives@gmail.com" target="_blank">zoltan.komives@gmail.com</a>></div>
<div> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi All, <br><br>I am working on <a href="https://github.com/zolaemil/MEItoVexFlow" target="_blank">MEItoVexFlow</a>, a javascript library that renders music encoded in MEI onto HTML5 canvas. We will have to decide upon the default behaviour for certains attributes in case they are not present.<br>
<br>We are going to define a customization for our particular application, but it raises the question whether there are some attributes that would benefit from a default value set by the guidelines. <br><br>In particular, we've come across the @barthru attribute (<i>"indicates whether bar lines go across the space between staves (true) or are only drawn across the lines of each staff (false)."</i>). Its use is highly inconsistent across the sample encodings, and we think that maybe for this particular attribute we would gain more in consistency than the loss in flexibility. <br>
<br>Please let me know what you think.<br><br>Best wishes,<br>Zoltan<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>Zoltan Komives</div><div>GSoC Intern</div><div>Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities</div>
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