Element reference

Look up a spelling and follow its chapter for worked examples. These entries come from the current native element registry. Recorded limitations are shown as recorded; they are not a claim that every older limitation has been re-audited.

node/note

Deleting it restores: the bar is that much shorter, and completes itself with rests.

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node/chord

Deleting it restores: the bar is that much shorter; a chord is one node, so it goes as one.

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node/rest

Deleting it restores: the silence is still there — a short bar fills itself with rests.

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node/multirest

Deleting it restores: the bars it stood for are gone, not unpacked; a lone r is one bar.

Recorded limitation: the H-bar covers the first bar while the bars it stands for still take their own width (docs/LANGUAGE-COVERAGE.md names it as an honest approximation the render report says out loud)

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node/grace

Deleting it restores: the note it leaned on keeps its full value; a grace steals no measured time.

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node/measure-repeat

Deleting it restores: the bar is empty, which reads as a bar of rest.

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mark/staccato

Deleting it restores: the note is played plain; the next note was never affected anyway.

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mark/staccatissimo

Deleting it restores: the note is played plain.

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mark/accent

Deleting it restores: the note takes the dynamic in force, unaccented.

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mark/tenuto

Deleting it restores: the note takes its plain written length.

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mark/marcato

Deleting it restores: the note is played plain.

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mark/portato

Deleting it restores: the note is played plain; portato is the PAIR, so deleting it drops both.

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mark/fermata

Deleting it restores: the note takes its written length and the beat keeps going.

Recorded limitation: a fermata on a REST draws nothing — paint_articulations is reached from paint_note only

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mark/trill

Deleting it restores: the note sounds once, plain.

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mark/mordent

Deleting it restores: the note sounds once, plain.

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mark/turn

Deleting it restores: the note sounds once, plain.

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mark/inverted-turn

Deleting it restores: the note sounds once, plain.

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mark/sim

Deleting it restores: every node in the run loses the copied marks and is plain again; the node that was typed once keeps its own.

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mark/non

Deleting it restores: the run keeps running to the end of the line instead of stopping here.

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mark/tremolo

Deleting it restores: the note sounds as one stroke of its written value.

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mark/dynamic

Deleting it restores: the level in force before it keeps sounding.

Recorded limitation: sticky in the clock only: scorescript_perform/src/dynamics.rs carries the level forward, while the model and the page treat a dynamic as a one-shot decoration on one event — two implementations of one law, with no shared authority

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mark/expression

Deleting it restores: the passage is played without the instruction.

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mark/player

Deleting it restores: the desk's page says nothing about who is playing, and the divisi engine derives its own word for the passage instead.

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mark/text

Deleting it restores: the passage is played without the instruction.

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mark/tempo-text

Deleting it restores: the tempo in force before it stands; the words are the character, not the rate.

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mark/chord-symbol

Deleting it restores: the harmony is whatever the notes say; the letter was a reading aid.

Recorded limitation: the v0.2 statement door lands an auto chord symbol BELOW in the model; the painter then draws it above anyway, because it never reads the side

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mark/rehearsal

Deleting it restores: the bar is an ordinary bar and the section it opened is unnamed.

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mark/rehearsal-circled

Deleting it restores: the bar is an ordinary bar; the ring was the face, not the mark.

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mark/rehearsal-spoken

Deleting it restores: the bar is an ordinary bar.

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mark/navigation

Deleting it restores: the piece plays straight through this point.

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mark/barline

Deleting it restores: the bar closes with a plain single barline.

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mark/repeat-barline

Deleting it restores: the music plays once and goes on; any volta it closed loses its end.

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mark/lyric

Deleting it restores: the line is vocalised or played; the notes do not move.

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mark/breath

Deleting it restores: the phrase runs on without a lift.

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mark/caesura

Deleting it restores: the phrase runs on without a break.

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mark/sticking

Deleting it restores: the note is struck with no hand named, and the player chooses.

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mark/figured-bass

Deleting it restores: the bass note stands alone and the harmony is the player's to read.

Recorded limitation: the reader checks it and throws it away — the model seam has no figured-bass field, so nothing is drawn (the breath lane fixed the twin of this on 2026-09-01; the same shape of fix is what this row wants)

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mark/system-break

Deleting it restores: the bar flows on the line the casting-off chooses; a reflow layout declines the cut the same way without deleting it.

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mark/page-break

Deleting it restores: the bar's page is the caster's choice again; the system cut a page cut implies goes with it.

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span/beam

Deleting it restores: voice beam policy resumes outside the span.

Recorded limitation: Experimental node and mapped connection spelling; not finalized.

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span/slur

Deleting it restores: the notes are played separately; nothing else moves.

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span/tie

Deleting it restores: the second note is struck again instead of held.

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span/hairpin-crescendo

Deleting it restores: the level in force holds flat across the passage.

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span/hairpin-diminuendo

Deleting it restores: the level in force holds flat across the passage.

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span/glissando

Deleting it restores: the two notes are separate; the slide between them was the figure.

Recorded limitation: member-specific chord endpoints and full annotation collision avoidance remain

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span/pedal

Deleting it restores: the passage is played without the sustain pedal.

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span/ottava-up

Deleting it restores: the notes print where they sound, ledger lines and all.

Recorded limitation: the line moves no notes — the model already resolved the octaves — so it is ink over music that is already in the right place

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span/ottava-down

Deleting it restores: the notes print where they sound.

Recorded limitation: the AUTO-CLEF octave line in paint/staff.rs puts a downward shift ABOVE the staff, disagreeing with this row and with the authored spelling

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span/trill-line

Deleting it restores: the note sounds once and plain for its written length.

Recorded limitation: the extension is dashed rather than a wiggle — Bravura's wiggle glyphs are not in the baked roster, and the render report says so

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span/custom-line

Deleting it restores: the passage carries no bracketed line.

Recorded limitation: MusicXML bracket import and full annotation collision avoidance remain

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span/volta

Deleting it restores: the bars are played on every pass; there is no first or second time.

Recorded limitation: the inline door makes voltas NAVIGATION words on the bar, not spans — only the v0.2 statement door builds a SpanKind::Volta, and that one is not drawn

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span/tuplet-bracket

Deleting it restores: the notes take their written values and the bar no longer adds up.

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span/tempo-transition

Deleting it restores: the tempo steps rather than ramps between its two ends.

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state/staff

Deleting it restores: [staff own] returns notation to the owning staff without changing its voice, pitch or timing.

Recorded limitation: individual chord-member source placement remains under development

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state/partial

Deleting it restores: this bar again fills its active meter; the printed meter never changed.

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state/meter

Deleting it restores: the meter in force before it continues (4/4 when nothing ever said).

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state/key

Deleting it restores: the signature in force before it continues (C major when nothing ever said).

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state/tempo

Deleting it restores: the rate in force before it continues; with none, the clock's default.

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state/clef

Deleting it restores: the part's own clef returns — the one it was declared with, or the instrument catalog's, or the painter's auto choice.

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state/instrument

Deleting it restores: the player stays on the instrument the part was declared with.

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state/beams

Deleting it restores: [beams standard] returns this meter to its own grouping AND forgets — which is what category three needs an explicit spelling for, since simply deleting the override leaves the memory it already made.

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state/spell

Deleting it restores: spell absolute returns: a written accidental means exactly itself.

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state/solfege

Deleting it restores: movable do returns — the cores are read against the key in force.

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state/rehearsal-scheme

Deleting it restores: rehearsal manual returns: the marks you write are the marks you get.

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state/range

Deleting it restores: range catalog returns: the bar is judged by the instrument catalog's own bands again; range none switches the check off.

Recorded limitation: the map spelling range written { fl C4-C7 } is PROVISIONAL, open for Brandon's veto

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state/highlight

Deleting it restores: highlight none returns: every notehead prints in the page's ink again.

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state/prefer

Deleting it restores: the house default returns: a derived major key keeps the side the arithmetic gives, a derived minor key takes the flats.

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state/transpose

Deleting it restores: transpose 0 returns: the bar is concert pitch again and the instrument catalog's own interval derives the page.

Recorded limitation: the map spelling transpose {0, m149 -1 -2} is PROVISIONAL, open for Brandon's veto

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identity/version

Deleting it restores: a fragment, read as the current spec — which is why the container swap made the header required: the same text can mean different music in two versions.

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identity/title

Deleting it restores: the page prints no title and page one starts at the top margin like any other.

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identity/composer

Deleting it restores: the title block loses that line and closes up.

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identity/arranger

Deleting it restores: the title block loses that line and closes up.

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identity/copyright

Deleting it restores: the book's pages lose that notice; a movement that states none takes its volume's notices again.

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identity/movement-title

Deleting it restores: the title block loses that line and closes up.

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identity/part-name

Deleting it restores: the catalog's own printed name returns, auto-numbered among its duplicates.

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identity/node-name

Deleting it restores: the node keeps a deterministic path id, so hosts still address it — they just address it by where it is instead of by what it is called.

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identity/measure-name

Deleting it restores: the bar keeps its label and its ordinal; only the stable name goes.

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identity/object

Deleting it restores: the definition claims no bars; deleting it makes every @allstate an object.unknown error rather than silently printing nothing — an application is @name <tonic> in a part or under a reader head, fits { } / first { } choose by what fits the reader's range, and if range contains @name { } else { } is the same rule as logic.

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identity/engraving

Deleting it restores: the score opens under the host's engraving or the shipped house; a sidecar beside the file, if any, still applies.

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