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Ambiguity: Do cue notes have duration elements? #461

Open school510587 opened 2 years ago

school510587 commented 2 years ago

In note.mod, there are two statements as follows:

... (cue and grace notes do not have duration encoded here).
Cue notes have a duration element, as do forward elements, but no tie elements.

The first statement implies that cue notes do not have <duration>. However, the second statement explicitly describes that a cue note has a <duration> element. I think that there is room for improvement of the textual expression here. Thanks.

mdgood commented 2 years ago

Thanks for pointing out this discrepancy, which is also present in the W3C XSD schema definition of the full-note element group. Fortunately the specification text does not contain this error (just in the musicxml.xsd file listing). Cue notes do have duration elements, unless they are cue grace notes.

We should fix this in a future version by removing the erroneous "cue and" words in the first statement, or something similar.