Meter signatures

[rettinghaus]

There are several tickets on meter signatures regarding rendition and grouping.
As I plan to add some more to those, I think it would be good to have a platform where we can bring all those things together and have a look at the bigger picture.

• Clarify meterSig sym / form and numbers #504
• system spanning meter signatures #697
• Encoding of prolation canons #818
• Meter signatures printed as fraction #827
• Nested meterSigGrps #970
• Visual appearance of meterSigGrp #987

Somewhat connected also:

• Polymeter #700
• Need for contextless @tstamp #322
• schema: Add encoding of numbers as parts of mensuration signs #848

Already addressed:

• meterSig on layers #841
• Allow simple calculus in numerator of meterSig #843

[ahankinson]

I'm not sure how #800 relates to meter signatures? Could you elaborate?

[rettinghaus]

Sorry, I meant #785, as Perry suggested something like meterSigGrp there.

[bwbohl]

2021-06-24 Odd Thursday: @rettinghaus thanks for moving this to the discussion and linking to potentially relevant issues. It seems that a thorough discussion and decision making process is good before taking any direct modifications of the schema. Synthesising all the above in on general concept and a PR might be good!

[annakijas1]

Here is another example of a meter signature that does not seem to have a good option for encoding and rendering accurately in Verovio. It is from Perkinson’s “Jettin’ Blue/s.”