[MEI-L] clef as milestone element

[Roland, Perry (pdr4h)]

In general, long names are preferred by inexperienced users, while short ones are preferred by experts.  This is analogous to menus for the uninitiated and keyboard shortcuts for gurus.  "systembreak" or "gesturalAccidental" seems like a great name until you realize it's going to happen over and over and over and over and over and ... 

So, in most markup schemes, short names are used for things that occur very frequently and long names are used for things that don't happen very often.  MEI follows this plan.

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From: mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de [mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] on behalf of TW [zupftom at googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 1:48 AM
To: Music Encoding Initiative
Subject: Re: [MEI-L] clef as milestone element

2011/6/8 Andrew Hankinson, Mr <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca>:
>
> On 2011-06-07, at 4:24 PM, TW wrote:
>> For example, I have no idea what note/@accid="tb" is meant to mean.
>> It's not documented either.

I'm sorry, it *is* documented.  Where did I have my eyes?

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