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Music Notation CG next-generation music markup proposal.
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Defining the staves to be included in barlines #279

Open notator opened 2 years ago

notator commented 2 years ago

This could be done using system staff indices, in the way bracket heights are defined in #277. Proposal: Define the following two new elements:

clnoel commented 2 years ago

This could also be done inside our current system-group-staff layout hierarchy by adding the following attribute to <group-layout>:

barline: enum staff, group, mensurstrich

This works because there is a group-layout symbol option of none, which has no visible left-side bracket or brace, but which can still group staves, in the case where we want the barlines to do something that the left-side grouping symbols are not.