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Overriding vertical-align
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xxx<span style="vertical-align: baseline;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx baseline (acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: baseline;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx baseline (high but acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: sub;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx sub (just barely acceptable on Windows, a bit too low) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: sub;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx sub (low but just barely acceptable on Windows
xxx<span style="vertical-align: super;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx super <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: top;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx top (high but acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: top;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx top (acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: text-top;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx text-top <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: text-top;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx text-top <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: middle;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx middle (best on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: middle;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx middle (best on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: text-bottom;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx text-bottom <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: text-bottom;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx text-bottom <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: bottom;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx bottom (acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: bottom;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx bottom (high but acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: initial;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx initial (acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: initial;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx initial (high but acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: inherit;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx inherit (acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: inherit;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx inherit (high but acceptable on Windows) <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: 0.25em;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx 0.25em <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: 0.25em;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx 0.25em <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: -0.25em;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx -0.25em <br>
xxx<span style="vertical-align: -0.25em;">{{User:Dave_Keenan/sagittal| x }}</span>xxx -0.25em <br>

Revision as of 21:56, 4 October 2024

Not overriding vertical-align (.bravura class has vertical-align: text-top. Sagittal template doesn't override that and we're not overriding it here.)

xxx⁠ ⁠xxx (acceptable on Windows)

Overriding vertical-align

xxx⁠ ⁠xxx baseline (high but acceptable on Windows)
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx sub (low but just barely acceptable on Windows xxx⁠ ⁠xxx top (high but acceptable on Windows)
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx text-top
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx middle (best on Windows)
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx text-bottom
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx bottom (high but acceptable on Windows)
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx initial (high but acceptable on Windows)
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx inherit (high but acceptable on Windows)
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx 0.25em
xxx⁠ ⁠xxx -0.25em

Flavors of Sagittal notation

Sagittal notation comes in two mutually compatible flavors.

Evo

The Evo flavor (short for "evolutionary", previously called "mixed") uses only single-shaft Sagittal symbols, e.g. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ , alone or in combination with conventional sharps and flats and their doubles. Only the large variant of the double sharp ⁠ ⁠ (U+E47D) is considered to be stylistically-compatible with Sagittal symbols. Evo is much easier to learn, but it results in a greater number of symbols on the sheet, which can give it a more cluttered appearance, particularly with chords, and it may be confusing when two symbols alter the same note in opposite directions.

A sub-flavor of Evo is Evo-SZ (Evo with Stein-Zimmermann). This is where the arrow-like 11M up and down symbols ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ are replaced by the Stein-Zimmermann semisharp ⁠ ⁠ and narrow reversed flat ⁠ ⁠ . This should only be done when the 11M symbols notate exactly half the alteration of a sharp or flat. Similarly, the combinations ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ and ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ are replaced by ⁠ ⁠ and ⁠ ⁠. The narrow variants of the fractional flats ⁠ ⁠ (U+E284) and ⁠ ⁠ (U+E285) are preferred because they preserve the Sagittal principle that the visual size of a symbol should indicate the relative size of its alteration.

Revo

The Revo flavor (short for "revolutionary", previously called "pure") only requires one accidental per note. Revo therefore takes up less space on the sheet and presents a cleaner appearance, and it clearly indicates the direction of the overall alteration. It discards the conventional sharps and flats and their doubles and replaces them with these multi-shaft arrow-like symbols: ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠. Adding a sharp or flat to a Sagittal is achieved by adding two more shafts, e.g. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ becomes ⁠ ⁠ and ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ becomes ⁠ ⁠. When the Sagittal part alters in the opposite direction to the sharp or flat part, the rules are not so simple, e.g. ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ becomes ⁠ ⁠ and ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ becomes ⁠ ⁠ ; one must simply learn these apotome complements.