[MEI-L] Encoding staff lines

[Daniel Alles]

As I try to use MEI "as is" and to explore the possibilities, a  
customization is unfortunately beyond anything I could do in the short  
time I have for my Thesis. (There would be some more customizations,  
though... ;-) ) But thank you, Laurent!

Daniel




Zitat von Laurent Pugin <lxpugin at gmail.com>:

> It seems to me that what you are trying to achieve can easily be done with
> the page-based customisation we use in Verovio. You can find some
> information about it here http://www.verovio.org/structure.xhtml
>
> Basically the page and the system are turned from milestone elements (<pb/>
> and <sb/> respectively) to containers (<page> and <system>). The idea is
> also to provide x / y and height / width information directly in there and
> without referring to a facsimile tree. Where to go with this is open to
> discussion.
>
> Laurent
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Andrew Hankinson <
> andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>> I think <sb @facs="#somezoneid" /> is probably the best way to do this;
>> It's slightly counter-intuitive since <sb /> is a milestone element, but
>> nevertheless it allows you to encode the physical dimensions of a system
>> and attach a zone to it.
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>> > On 8 Aug 2017, at 13:20, Daniel Alles <DanielAlles at stud.uni-frankfurt.de>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > you can find an example of my source attached to this email. As you can
>> see, the 2nd, 3rd and 7th systems are not fully filled with notes, the 8th
>> line is empty. What I would like to encode is that the systems are
>> nevertheless of the same width like the 1st.
>> >
>> > I encode the positions of the notes etc. using <zone>, <facs> and
>> <ulx>/<uly>/<lrx>/<lry>, and something similar I would like to have for the
>> staff systems, too.
>> >
>> > Best, Daniel
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Zitat von Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca>:
>> >
>> >> Hi Daniel,
>> >>
>> >> How are you encoding the position of every note, rest, etc.?
>> >>
>> >> <sb /> allows @facs, which can reference a defined zone on a page. So:
>> >>
>> >> <zone xml:id="z1" ulx="nn" uly="nn" lrx="nn" lry="nn" />
>> >>
>> >> then
>> >>
>> >> <sb facs="#z1" />
>> >>
>> >> -Andrew
>> >>> On 8 Aug 2017, at 11:28, Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h) <pdr4h at virginia.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Daniel,
>> >>>
>> >>> MEI doesn't currently encode the width of the staff lines, but it does
>> allow one to specify the color of individual staff lines.  For staff lines
>> that are logically but not visually present, you can set the color to white
>> (presuming the background of the page is also white).  I'm not sure what
>> you mean by "half-filled" staff lines.  Can you provide an example?
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> p.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>>> From: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf
>> Of Daniel Alles
>> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 2:26 AM
>> >>>> To: Music Encoding Initiative <mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de>
>> >>>> Subject: [MEI-L] Encoding staff lines
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dear all,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> during my encoding of a facsimile I recognized that I give the exact
>> location of every note,
>> >>>> rest, dot etc. on the page, but not those of the lines they are
>> written on. Of course I use
>> >>>> <sb/> and <pb/> to cover the line breaks, but the width of the staff
>> lines is not encoded,
>> >>>> because I can't find anything for that in the Guidelines. Is there
>> any possibility to encode
>> >>>> them? My source contains some half-filled or empty staff lines which
>> I would like to
>> >>>> encode too.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Best,
>> >>>> Daniel
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> _______________________________________________
>> >>>> mei-l mailing list
>> >>>> mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
>> >>>> https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l
>> >>> _______________________________________________
>> >>> mei-l mailing list
>> >>> mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
>> >>> https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> mei-l mailing list
>> >> mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
>> >> https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l
>> >
>> >
>> > <01_heugel_magnificat_discantus_Seite_09.jpg>_______________
>> ________________________________
>> > mei-l mailing list
>> > mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
>> > https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mei-l mailing list
>> mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
>> https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l
>>