<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear MEI-L,</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 13px;">Freschütz has a question concerning encoding mixed direction slurs.</span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><a href="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2430401/5976008/319371e8-a889-11e4-9a4c-7fe5cc246dfe.png" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(65, 131, 196); text-decoration: none; "><img alt="bildschirmfoto 2015-01-30 um 14 05 39" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; max-width: 100%;" id="4a73f299-9c24-4133-9c73-c4bc5d841651" height="103" width="304" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:2E47AB1E-FAA9-4748-9D71-EF2F4301544B@bib.hfm-detmold.de"></a></p><div>I<span style="font-size: 13px;">n case the picture doesn't come through, please see: <a href="https://github.com/Freischuetz-Digital/proofMEIdata/issues/25">https://github.com/Freischuetz-Digital/proofMEIdata/issues/25</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 13px;">This slur may not be properly encoded in MEI using @curvedir that only allows 'above' or 'below' as values. Nevertheless, using <a href="https://github.com/bezier" class="user-mention" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap; ">@bezier</a> is much more verbose than needed…</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 13px;">Maybe a value like 'mixed' / 'above-below' / 'below-above' / 'changing' / 'alternating' would be applicable? Of course the schema would have to be modified to allow this. Are there any comparable values in other parts of the schema?</span></p><div><br></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="font-size: 13px; ">This is no "special", rather quite often in printed music from the 19th century.</span></p><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Benjamin</div></body></html>