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+ ++If there is only one voice, specifying place for a phrase just tells +Mup where to draw the phrase mark. If there are +two or more voices, +and a place is specified, "above" +indicates to Mup that the phrase is associated with voice 1, +and "below" indicates to Mup that the phrase is associated with voice 2. +
++If no place is specified and there is only one voice with notes, +Mup will decide which side would be better based on the musical data. +This means the phrase mark may come out above or below. +In the case where there are two voices and +there are notes present in both voices, phrase marks will be drawn both +above and below. +
++Each phrase statement item must include a begintime and duration. +A phrase mark must begin and end on a chord, so Mup first takes the begintime +and duration and finds the chords nearest to each of them. It then draws a +phrase mark between them, shaping it to be out of the way of other things as +much as possible. +It is possible to specify a "grace back up" on the begintime +(a negative number in parentheses, +specifying how many grace notes to back up), +to make the phrase include leading grace notes. +It is possible to "nest" phrase marks (i.e., have one phrase on a subset of +the chords of another phrase). +
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+Some examples:
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+staff 2 + vscheme=2o + +music + +1: d;f;a;b; +2,3 1: a;f;d;g; +2 2: 4.c;8b-;4d;g; +phrase 1: 1 til 4; +phrase above 2,3: 1 til 2; 3 til 4; +phrase below 2: 2.5 til 1m + 1.5; +bar +1: b;c+;d+;e+; +2,3 1: g;a;f;c; +2 2: 4.e;8f;4b-;g; +bar +
+Phrase marks are sometimes used on
+tablature staffs in conjunction with slides.
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+score staffs=2 +staff 2 stafflines=tab +music + +2: a3<>;a4;e4<>;e2; +phrase above 2: 1 til 2; 3 til 4; +bar +
+The word "phrase" can be preceded by a line type modifier: dotted or dashed. +The dotted or dashed styles might be used for phrase marks +that were added by an editor rather than the composer, or to show a phrase +that doesn't apply to all verses. +
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