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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Line is the appropriate entity. I can hear the sighs now, but the ligature element in MEI is not intended for these brackets – “The ligature element should not be used for
brackets in modern notation that indicate notes that were part of a ligature in the original source.” (from the description of ligature in the schema) and so it’s currently in the MEI.mensural module – it disappears when MEI.mensural is not invoked. Creation
of a similar entity for CMN or merging of ligatures in both repertoires is a possibility, but the topic needs discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Currently, a line can only be positioned relative to the objects referenced by its @startid and @endid attributes using @start(ho|to|vo) and @end(ho|to|vo). But, I don’t
think there’s any reason not to allow @tstamp, @tstamp2, @staff, @layer and @place. Even so, I think the best (that is, most precise) way to position lines is by associating them with specific events or time stamps. The @staff, @layer, @place attributes
can only be useful for making sure the lines associated with a particular staff are considered when processing that staff’s data, for instance when rendering a single staff (e.g., part extraction).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In any case,have a look at the mei-all_anyStart.odd in /develop-perry. Line has undergone some significant changes. Its new attributes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">form: dashed, dotted, solid, wavy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">width: narrow, medium, wide, or numeric value + unit (cm|mm|in|pt|pc|px|vu)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">endsym: angledown -- 90 degree turn down (similar to Unicode 231D at end of line, 231C at start).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">angleup -- 90 degree turn up (similar to Unicode 231F at end of line, 231E at start)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">angleright -- 90 degree turn right (syntactic sugar for "angledown" for vertical or angled lines).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">angleleft -- 90 degree turn left (syntactic sugar for "angleup" for vertical or angled lines).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">arrow -- Filled, triangular arrowhead (similar to SMuFL U+EB78).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">arrowopen -- Open triangular arrowhead (similar to SMuFL U+EB8A).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">arrowwhite -- Unfilled, triangular arrowhead (similar to SMuFL U+EB82).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">harpoonleft -- Harpoon-shaped arrowhead left of line (similar to arrowhead of Unicode U+21BD).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">harpoonright -- Harpoon-shaped arrowhead right of line (similar to arrowhead of Unicode U+21BC).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">none -- No start symbol.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">endsymsize: 1-9 (relative size)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">startsym: [same as endsym]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">startsymsize: [same as endsym]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Andrew, when you say you’re supporting MEI 3.0.0 in SibMEI, are you using these new attributes?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">p.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces@lists.uni-paderborn.de]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Hankinson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Music Encoding Initiative<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [MEI-L] Bracketed Lines in MEI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm looking at the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems that the best element to use in this case would be 'line'; however, the line element currently does not support durational attributes (@dur, @dur.ges, @tstamp, @tstamp2) or positional (@staff, @layer, @place). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a better element to use for this object, or should a modification be proposed for the schema?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
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