<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks, Craig. The trick is that this is coming out of Sibelius so I don't really have the luxury of encoding it semantically -- I just need to indicate the most likely semantics, since it may be "overloaded" in some contexts by people who just want the symbol, not the meaning.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Stop" looks good to me, though -- and you're backed up by Wikipedia on this. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols#Articulation_marks" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols#Articulation_marks</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Andrew</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2015, at 3:33 PM, Craig Sapp <<a href="mailto:craigsapp@gmail.com" class="">craigsapp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Andrew,<br class=""><br class="">Technically it will depend on the semantics of the symbol, as a '+'<br class="">sign will most likely have different meanings for different<br class="">repertories/instruments.<br class=""><br class="">For French Horns, the "+" sign is used to indicate a stopped note (or<br class="">the start of a sequence of stopped notes that would be cancelled by an<br class="">"o" above a note, meaning "open".).<br class=""><br class="">In the MEI articulation list:<br class="">     <a href="http://music-encoding.org/documentation/guidelines2013/data.ARTICULATION" class="">http://music-encoding.org/documentation/guidelines2013/data.ARTICULATION</a><br class=""><br class="">I see an entry called "stop", so that is the most likely thing to start with.<br class=""><br class="">-=+Craig<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 26 February 2015 at 12:13, Andrew Hankinson<br class=""><<a href="mailto:andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca" class="">andrew.hankinson@mail.mcgill.ca</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">I'm trying to encode a "+" articulation mark on a note, and don't seem to be able to find anything in @artic that matches up with it. I could be looking in the wrong place, though.<br class=""><br class="">You can see an example of this symbol in action in Gould's "Behind Bars" on pp. 281, 297-8 (closed hi-hat) and 263 (Horn hand-stopping). I've consulted the Unicode Western notation guide (from which @artic seems to take its inspiration) and it also seems to be lacking there.<br class=""><br class="">Any clues?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">-Andrew<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">mei-l mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:mei-l@lists.uni-paderborn.de" class="">mei-l@lists.uni-paderborn.de</a><br class="">https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">mei-l mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:mei-l@lists.uni-paderborn.de" class="">mei-l@lists.uni-paderborn.de</a><br class="">https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>