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

[Klaus Rettinghaus]

Hi Richard, 

the main problem is that the dots attribute has been removed in MEI 4.
See
https://music-encoding.org/guidelines/v4/elements/mrest.html#attributes
and
https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding/issues/429

—
Dr. Klaus Rettinghaus 

> Am 05.06.2022 um 19:56 schrieb Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at rism.digital>:
> 
> I can't tell you exactly why it's happening, but I suspect there's something going wrong here:
> 
> https://github.com/music-encoding/encoding-tools/blob/main/mei30To40/mei30To40.xsl#L367-L415
> 
> Particularly lines 410-413.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 5 Jun 2022, at 19:25, Richard Freedman <rfreedma at haverford.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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>>>> Richard Freedman
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>>>> John C. Whitehead '43 Professor of Humanities
>>>> Chair, Department of Music
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>> Professor of Music
>> John C. Whitehead '43 Professor of Humanities
>> Chair, Department of Music
>> Haverford College
>> Haverford, PA 19041
>> 
>> 610-389-0595
>> 
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>> 
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