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The <appearance> element

Parent element: <defaults>

The appearance type controls general graphical settings for the music’s final form appearance on a printed page of display. This includes support for line widths, definitions for note sizes, and standard distances between notation elements, plus an extension element for other aspects of appearance.

Content

In this order

Attributes

None.

Examples

This element is used in the following examples:

<defaults><glyph>Tutorial: Après un rêveTutorial: Chopin PreludeTutorial: Chord SymbolsTutorial: PercussionTutorial: Tablature