[MEI-L] Encoding elisions

[Raffaele Viglianti]

Hi Thomas,

That sounds like a good case for <abbr> to me. If you wanted, you could
then encode the full passage with <expan>.

Best,
Raffaele


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:01 PM, TW <zupftom at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear MEI family,
>
> for Corpus monodicum, we need to encode situations where a scribe
> notates only the beginning and sometimes also the end of a chant
> section.  Those are kind of cues and the scribe assumes the singer
> knows how to continue.  It's really similar to when only the first
> words of a refrain are printed between verses.
>
> I think <gap> is the appropriate thing to use, like:
>
>   <syllable>
>     <syl>Sex</syl>
>   </syllable>
>   <syllable>
>     <syl>bomb</syl>
>   </syllable>
>
>   <gap reason="cue"/>
>
>   <!-- Sometimes we also have this following the gap: -->
>   <syllable>
>     <syl>turn</syl>
>   </syllable>
>   <syllable>
>     <syl>me</syl>
>   </syllable>
>   <syllable>
>     <syl>on.</syl>
>   </syllable>
>
> (Yes, Corpus monodicum also transcribes a few love songs.)
>
> Any objections to this structure?  For some reason I don't feel 100%
> confident that this is what the <gap> element was made for.
>
> Thomas
>
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