Music XML export: Offset values of fingering and other text objects are lost
Nightly acf6580 (2.0.3) / Win 7
Generate a Music XML file from the attached score and reimport it:
1. The "LH fingering" is reimported as "fingering" but all the offset values have been lost. Inspection of the MusicXML file reveals that the "fingering" elements have no attribute values set.
2. Similarly, the Dynamics and trill symbols have lost their original offset positions.
3. Does the problem extend to other text elements as well?
Another issue has been opened to deal with the beams that have appeared over the tablature staff. See MusicXML export and reimport: Beams appear above tablature line .
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| musicxml_issues.mscz | 22.36 KB |
Comments
This is simply not implemented.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in general, this wouldn't make sense anyhow, since no two programs will have the same algorithms for default position of these elements, so offsets could ot be interpreted meaningfully.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in general, this wouldn't make sense anyhow, since no two programs will have the same algorithms for default position of these elements, so offsets could ot be interpreted meaningfully.
In the MakeMusic MusicXML forum I found:
For the fingering element, a default-x of 0 is the left-hand side of the note, and default-y of 0 is the top line of the staff.
In theory, we could export positioning according to this definition and various applications should interpret these correctly.
relates to #270643: [EPIC] MusicXML import/export issues