Re: Position of direction "stop"

Hi Marko,

It seems to me that the general rule is that all directions are aligned with the following note in the same bar. If the direction is after the last note in the bar it is placed to the left of the barline.

octave-shift end (only) does not follow this rule, but that seems perfectly reasonable. It would be strange to have the octave shift end before the last note which is shifted.

Perhaps octave shift should have been a notation, and then there would be less ambiguity.

MuseScore 2.1 appears to display 33a-Spanners incorrectly by this standard. SeeScore is correct I think.

Any other opinions on this?

best regards
James Sutton
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> On 4 Apr 2021, at 21:41, Marko Raina <marko.raina@fimnet.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm somewhat confused how to produce and interpret direction elements with
> 'start' and 'stop' attributes, like wedges, octave shifts and pedal marks. 
> 
> Comparing the MusicXML example files and their PDF versions it seems that e.g.
> <wedge type="start"/> is installed before the note elements (s) the wedge 
> is related to visually and <wedge type="stop"/> is installed after the last
> note element it is related to. 
> 
> But in the (yes, unofficial) MusicXML test suite
> (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/input/regression/musicxml/collated-files.html)
> in the 33a-Spanners.xml many spanner directions have their stop _before_ the
> last note related to the direction. This is not consistent, as octave shifts
> seem to stop after the last note.
> 
> In the schema, there is an annotation at directions: "or applications where a
> specific direction is indeed attached to a specific note, the direction
> element can be associated with the note element that follows it in score
> order that is not in a different voice." This is a bit  vague to me...
> 
> As this impacts quite a lot for both visual and played music, which
> interpretation is correct: stop element before or after the last note?   
> 
> Marko
> 
> 
>