[MEI-L] Problems encoding CMN

[Craig Sapp]

Here is a note from Perry from Sept 2015 to the MEI-L mailing list about
this topic:



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.



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).



In any case,have a look at the mei-all_anyStart.odd in /develop-perry.
Line has undergone some significant changes.  Its new attributes:



form:                   dashed, dotted, solid, wavy

width:                 narrow, medium, wide, or numeric value + unit
(cm|mm|in|pt|pc|px|vu)

endsym:             angledown -- 90 degree turn down (similar to Unicode
231D at end of line, 231C at start).

angleup -- 90 degree turn up (similar to Unicode 231F at end of line, 231E
at start)

angleright -- 90 degree turn right (syntactic sugar for "angledown" for
vertical or angled lines).

angleleft -- 90 degree turn left (syntactic sugar for "angleup" for
vertical or angled lines).

arrow -- Filled, triangular arrowhead (similar to SMuFL U+EB78).

arrowopen -- Open triangular arrowhead (similar to SMuFL U+EB8A).

arrowwhite -- Unfilled, triangular arrowhead (similar to SMuFL U+EB82).

harpoonleft -- Harpoon-shaped arrowhead left of line (similar to arrowhead
of Unicode U+21BD).

harpoonright -- Harpoon-shaped arrowhead right of line (similar to
arrowhead of Unicode U+21BC).

none -- No start symbol.

endsymsize:      1-9 (relative size)

startsym:            [same as endsym]

startsymsize:     [same as endsym]



Andrew, when you say you’re supporting MEI 3.0.0 in SibMEI, are you using
these new attributes?




On 26 January 2017 at 13:57, Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.
ca> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> You've (perhaps unknowingly) stumbled on one of the core tenets of MEI --
> the separation of the semantic and the symbol.
>
> In MEI, you wouldn't encode the brackets; you would rather encode the
> function of the brackets, and leave it to a renderer to deal with adding
> the brackets around it.
>
> There are many 'semantic' places where you may see a bracket ('semantic'
> here is in reference to the function of the encoding in describing intent,
> rather than describing appearance). You could, for example, use elements
> such as 'supplied,' 'sic/corr', or 'orig/reg' to describe why the
> accidental should be drawn in brackets in an MEI-aware renderer.
>
> The same applies to your ligature question. You wouldn't place a line
> above a staff in MEI to indicate a ligature; you would instead find a way
> to encode the grouping of these notes into a ligature. It will then be up
> to the renderer to display that with a line above.
>
> -Andrew
>
>
>
> > On Jan 26, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Daniel Alles <
> DanielAlles at stud.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> >
> > New day, new questions - I hope this will get better soon...
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > is there a possibility to encode an accidental in brackets (if possible
> above the staff)? I use them in my transcription of mensural notation to
> indicate where I think might be missing one but should be there. The
> Guidelines only mention "regular" accidentals (without brackets).
> >
> > How can I use brackets (in CMN) above the staff to indicate a ligature
> in the MN-source? And what about coloration in the source? For that I
> normaly use half brackets (see attached PDF). How can I encode something
> similar?
> >
> > I hope, someone can help me with that.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Daniel
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