Spurious dir in Bach_Ein_festeBurg.mei
craigsapp opened this issue · 0 comments
The encoding Bach_Ein_festeBurg.mei contains a spurious <dir>
which should be removed:
sample-encodings/MEI 3.0/Music/Complete examples/Bach_Ein_festeBurg.mei
Lines 638 to 643 in 5fba3a4
<dir tstamp="3" place="above" staff="1">
<rend fontfam="serif"
fontsize="16"
fontstyle="italic"
halign="center">Worte: Martin Luther 1529 Quelle: Jos. Klug G.B. 1535</rend>
</dir>
This is left over from conversion from MusicXML from some music notation editor (which one is not mentioned in the <meiHead>
) that either did not have page-oriented layout of text, or the encoder hacked the information by placing it as a text expression above the last measure on the first system. Here is the source PDF view:
Note according to the MEI conversion that the text is centered above barline 4 rather than right justified at the end of the system as it is supposed to be.
This information should be stored in the <meiHead>
and the <dir>
removed, since reformatting the layout would place such a direction in the wrong place:
[I do not see the source mentioned in the vast contents of <meiHead>
, nor that the music was composed in 1529...]
Another small and moot point is that the <dir>
text does not include an encoding of the line break between the Worte and Quellen lines (so not really a transcoding of the data since this is lost).