<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Anna,</div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US">> I’m wondering about the correct @wordpos in monosyllabic words:<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><br></div><div>@wordpos is only for partial words:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://music-encoding.org/documentation/3.0.0/lyricsDesc">http://music-encoding.org/documentation/3.0.0/lyricsDesc</a></div><div><p style="border:0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,"lucida grande",sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1em 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">The attribute <span class="gmail-att" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">wordpos</span> is used to specify the position of the marked-up lyric syllable in a word. It allows the following values:</p><dl style="border:0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,"lucida grande",sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)"><dt style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-weight:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">i </span><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">- Indicates that the current syllable's position is </span><em class="gmail-mentioned" style="font-family:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">i</em><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">nitial; that is, at the beginning of a word;</span></dt><dt style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-weight:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">m </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">- Indicates that the current syllable is in the </span><em class="gmail-mentioned" style="font-family:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">m</em><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">iddle of a word;</span></dt><dt style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 5px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-weight:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">t </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">- Indicates that the syllable's position is </span><em class="gmail-mentioned" style="font-family:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">t</em><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit">erminal; that is, at the end of a word.</span></dt></dl><p style="border:0px;font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,"lucida grande",sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:1em 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">When a syllable is at the beginning or in the middle of a word (in which case it will have the <span class="gmail-att" style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">wordpos </span>attribute set to ‘i’ or ‘m’), it is recommended to specify the type of connector written between the current and the following syllable.</p></div><div class="gmail_extra">This following paragraph is of interest:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,"lucida grande",sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Occasionally, a word or a final syllable needs to be extended across multiple notes. In this case an ‘extender’ is provided. An extender is a continuous line drawn at the text's baseline from the end of the syllable associated with the first note until the last note to be sung with the syllable.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The guidelines to not explicitly say how a connector should be applied to a monosyllabic word, and there is no @extender for syl, but the way I do it is to give @con="u" on the @syl for the word:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font color="#0000ff"><syl con="u">a</syl><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is also recognized by verovio, drawing the @con as an extender (rather than a connecter):</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div c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