Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

Module

Used by

Attribute ClassesThese class-based attributes use data.FRETNUMBER.omit

att.stringtab/@tab.fretRecords the location at which a string should be stopped against a fret. The value 0 (zero) indicates the open string. The value omit indicates an omitted string that does not sound.

Allowed Values

omitThe string is omitted, not sounding.

Declaration


                                 <macroSpec xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="add" ident="data.FRETNUMBER.omit" module="MEI" type="dt">
                                    
                                    <desc xml:lang="en">In cases like those in chord tablature grids where a string is omitted, the value
                                       
                                       <val>omit</val>
 is used.</desc>
                                    
                                    <content>
                                       
                                       <valList type="closed">
                                          
                                          <valItem ident="omit">
                                             
                                             <desc xml:lang="en">The string is omitted, not sounding.</desc>
                                             </valItem>
                                          </valList>
                                       </content>
                                    </macroSpec>