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<metSym>

metrical notation symbol

documents the intended significance of a particular character or character sequence within a metrical notation, either explicitly or in terms of other metSym elements in the same metDecl.

Module verseHDMN

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
@valuespecifies the character or character sequence being documented.
Status
Required
Datatype
1–∞ occurrences of teidata.word separated by whitespace
@terminalspecifies whether the symbol is defined in terms of other symbols (@terminal is set to false) or in prose (@terminal is set to true).
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.truthValue

Classes and content

May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

transcr

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

verse

Example

<metSym value="x">a stressed syllable</metSym>
<metSym value="o">an unstressed syllable</metSym>
<metSym value="A" terminal="false">xoo</metSym>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
  </content>