You are on your own on that one. I think it just leads to the unpleasant
chaos of having to look up what those mean in a table somewhere after you
have forgotten why you put that into your score.

-Shane

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:20 PM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Currently Lilypond only supports powers of 2 for specifying duration.
> Could we
> use the other numbers for common divisions?
>
> For example: We could use 3 for 2*3/2, 5 for 4*5/4, 6 for 4*3/2, 7 for
> 8*7/8,
> 9 for 8*9/8, 10 for 8*5/4, 11 for 8*11/8, 12 for 8*3/2 and so on.
>
> This would be quite useful, especially for the divisions of three (*3/2),
> because stuff like this
> e8*2/3 dis cis cis8. dis16 e8*2/3 dis cis cis8. dis16
> Is not really nice to enter, while
> e12 dis cis cis8. dis16 e12 dis cis cis8. dis16
> would be much less effort.
>
> Cheers, Valentin

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