**simil -- similarity representation

DESCRIPTION

The **simil representation encodes numerical values that indicate the Damerau-Levenshtein edit distance between two other Humdrum representations. Data tokens for **simil consist only of decimal numbers. The value 1.0 indicates identical material beginning at the current data record. Lower numerical values indicate increasingly less similarity at the current data record.

FILE TYPE

It is recommended that files containing predominantly **simil data should be given names with the distinguishing `.sim' extension.

SIGNIFIERS

The following table summarizes the **simil mappings of signifiers and signifieds.

0-9	decimal values
.	fractional delimiter; null token

Summary of **simil Signifiers

A sample document is given below:

**simil
0.78
0.73
0.74
0.69
0.71
0.68
0.68
0.63
.
.
*-

The following Humdrum command produces **simil data as output:

simil

measure the similarity between two Humdrum spines

TANDEM INTERPRETATIONS

The following tandem interpretations can be used in conjunction with **simil:

MIDI channel	*Ch1
meter signatures	*M6/8
key signatures	*k[f#c#]
key	*c#:

Tandem interpretations for **simil

cmp (UNIX), **correl, correl, diff (UNIX), patt, pattern, simil, **xref

• Pertinent description in the Humdrum User Guide
• Index to Humdrum Representations
• Index to Humdrum Commands
• Table for Contents for Humdrum User Guide