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Element: distance

Description

The distance element represents standard distances between notation elements in tenths.

Derived By

Type distance

Attributes
Name  Type  Required?  Default  Description 
type  distance-type  Yes  The type attribute defines what type of distance is being defined. Valid values include hyphen (for hyphens in lyrics) and beam.
Content Model

Contains text only.

Referenced By
Example
    <appearance>
      <line-width type="stem">0.957</line-width>
      <line-width type="beam">5</line-width>
      <line-width type="staff">1.25</line-width>
      <line-width type="light barline">1.4583</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">0.9375</line-width>
      <line-width type="enclosure">1.4583</line-width>
      <line-width type="tuplet bracket">1.4583</line-width>
      <note-size type="grace">50</note-size>
      <note-size type="cue">50</note-size>
      <distance type="hyphen">60</distance>
      <distance type="beam">8</distance>

    </appearance>
Definition

See appearance

 

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