Element: appearance
Description
The appearance type controls general graphical settings for the music's final form appearance on a printed page of display. This includes support for line widths, definitions for note sizes, and standard distances between notation elements, plus an extension element for other aspects of appearance.
Derived By
Type appearance
Content Model
Contains elements as defined in the following table.
| Component | Type | Occurs | Default | Description |
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1..1 |
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| line-width | line-width | 0..* | The line-width type indicates the width of a line type in tenths. The text content is expressed in tenths. |
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| note-size | note-size | 0..* | The note-size type indicates the percentage of the regular note size to use for notes with a cue and large size as defined in the type element. The grace type is used for notes of cue size that that include a grace element. The cue type is used for all other notes with cue size, whether defined explicitly or implicitly via a cue element. The large type is used for notes of large size. The text content represent the numeric percentage. A value of 100 would be identical to the size of a regular note as defined by the music font. |
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| distance | distance | 0..* | The distance element represents standard distances between notation elements in tenths. |
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| other-appearance | other-appearance | 0..* | The other-appearance type is used to define any graphical settings not yet in the current version of the MusicXML format. This allows extended representation, though without application interoperability. |
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Referenced By
- Complex Type defaults
Example
<defaults>
<scaling>
<millimeters>7.1967</millimeters>
<tenths>40</tenths>
</scaling>
<page-layout>
<page-height>1553</page-height>
<page-width>1200</page-width>
<page-margins type="both">
<left-margin>141</left-margin>
<right-margin>70</right-margin>
<top-margin>70</top-margin>
<bottom-margin>70</bottom-margin>
</page-margins>
</page-layout>
<system-layout>
<system-margins>
<left-margin>0</left-margin>
<right-margin>0</right-margin>
</system-margins>
<system-distance>96</system-distance>
<top-system-distance>51</top-system-distance>
</system-layout>
<staff-layout>
<staff-distance>93</staff-distance>
</staff-layout>
<appearance>
<line-width type="stem">0.9375</line-width>
<line-width type="beam">5.2083</line-width>
<line-width type="staff">0.9375</line-width>
<line-width type="light barline">1.875</line-width>
<line-width type="heavy barline">5</line-width>
<line-width type="leger">1.875</line-width>
<line-width type="ending">1.4583</line-width>
<line-width type="wedge">1.4583</line-width>
<line-width type="enclosure">0.9375</line-width>
<line-width type="tuplet bracket">0.9375</line-width>
<note-size type="grace">60</note-size>
<note-size type="cue">60</note-size>
<distance type="hyphen">120</distance>
<distance type="beam">8</distance>
</appearance>
<music-font font-family="Maestro,engraved" font-size="20.4"/>
<word-font font-family="Times New Roman" font-size="10.2"/>
</defaults>
