[MEI-L] Question about mRest, dur and dots in MEI 3 and 4

[Richard Freedman]

I am using MEI garage.  We have a script by Raff Viglianti that passes
each of our MEI 3 files to garage, then
saves them locally.

richard

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 1:21 PM Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> How are you converting the files? What script or service are you using?
>
> -Andrew
>
> On 5 Jun 2022, at 18:39, Richard Freedman <rfreedma at haverford.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> Friends,
>
> I am wondering whether someone can help me with confusion about the
> encoding of mRests.
>
> Our MEI 3.0 files have certain bars with mRest under a time signature of
> 3/1.
>
> The dur of these mRests is recorded as breve in MEI 3.0.  We need,
> however, to add dots="1" to these for subsequent processing with music21.
> This works.
>
> However, when I convert these files to MEI 4.0. I also see a dur of "breve
> 1", and the dots="1" are gone.
>
> What is the meaning of "breve 1" here?  I cannot seem to find the
> documentation of this attribute value.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Richard
>
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