johentsch / ms3

A parser for annotated MuseScore 3 files.
https://ms3.readthedocs.io
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Don't assign measure number 0 to incipits #44

Open johentsch opened 1 year ago

johentsch commented 1 year ago

Incipits should be considered as markup, not part of the music. Right now they are excluded from bar count and get MN 0 but that makes them indistinguishable from upbeat measures. Suggestion: Replace 0 by x or missing value image

johentsch commented 1 year ago

This issue is postponed until a measure_number is added which allows for including string values such as 16b. This will also enable a special value for incipit measures.

For now, there are a couple of other ways to mark/discover incipit measures: