Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> writes:
> On 10/10/2012 09:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> However, forcing a certain form of input representation for a certain
>> form of output is a nuisance for programmatically generated music.
>>
>> I'd rather recommend using something separate like
>> \tupletStyle "3:2", \tupletStyle "3", \tupletStyle "".
>
> That's fair enough, but I'm still inclined to think that whatever the
> display style used, there may be some value in allowing tuplets to be
> entered not just as ratios of numbers, but as ratios of musical
> durations: e.g. {8*7}/{4*3}, or {16*6}/{8.~8}.
For that kind of special application, a specially and separately named
tuplet command taking several durations as argument would be appropriate
rather than trying to cram everything into the standard command.
--
David Kastrup
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