[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I have a song with lots of triplets (\times 2/3 {c8 e g} for
> > instance). If I use one \times block spanning over several bars, lily
> > prints one big bracket spanning over those bars. It would be more
> > convenient to have have brackets over groups of 3 notes.
>
> Certainly! This was actually implemented in an early version of
> Lilypond, but was removed later. One problem of your suggestion
> is to know if you want triplets of three 16:th, three 8:th or
This should be very easy to implement again. Have a look at
tuplet-engraver.cc. All it needs is a little more code to tune behavior
of starting and stopping tuplet spanners
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