<timesignature>

The <timesignature> element inserts a formatted musical time signature in running text. Use the top and bottom attributes to specify the meter.

Use <timesignature> when discussing notation semantically rather than typing a plain fraction such as 4/4.

Syntax

Attributes

Attributes for <timesignature>
AttributeRequired?Values
bottom = "…"requiredstring
top = "…"requiredstring

Children

This tag must be empty (i.e., no children or text allowed).

Parents

This element may appear as an immediate child of the following elements: <alert> <angles> <articletitle> <attribution> <author> <biblio> <caption> <cell> <creator> <dataurl> <dblbrackets> <delete> <description> <em> <entity> <fn> <foreign> <h> <idx> <insert> <instruction> <intertext> <li> <line> <minilicense> <p> <pubtitle> <q> <role> <see> <seealso> <shortlicense> <shorttitle> <sq> <stale> <subtitle> <support> <term> <title> <url> <xref> <year>

Examples