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Clarify inheritance and override of a note's print-object by descendant elements #61

Open mdgood opened 9 years ago

mdgood commented 9 years ago

MusicXML 3.0 is not as clear as it could be on whether descendants of notes inherit the note's print-object attribute value, and can override it with a different value. This should be made more explicit in the documentation for both visible and invisible notes and their descendants. This is related to issue #24 and the inheritance of color within a note element.

See the question raised by Dominik Hörnel on the MusicXML forum at http://forums.makemusic.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2215#p6327.

lemzwerg commented 7 months ago

What's the status of this issue?

My concern are beams: What happens if a beam starts (or ends) at an invisible note? There is no print-object attribute for this child element. Looks like an omission to me, given that <notation>, which holds all other spanner objects like ties or slurs, has this attribute...

PS: The link to the forum no longer works.