Why the urge to change? When \times has been used for such a long time, replacing it with "tuplet" or advanced arithmetics would make things far more difficult. I don't see the problem with the current system.
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Bernardo Barros wrote: > One think I don't like, since I use a lot of tuplets, is the > similarity between "time" and "times". > Why not \tuplet 9/8 instead of \times 8/9 ? > > 2010/10/15 Janek Warchoł <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > an idea about tuplets came to my head (and a quick seach suggested that it > > wasn't discussed before). > > In LilyPond we write durations in form of denominators, i.e. c4 = "c note > > that lasts 1/4 the duration of a whole note", d16 = "d note with a duration > > 16 times shorter than whole note" etc., but for the tuplets we need the > > \times notation. Of course it works, but maybe we can make it simpler? > > Why not use numbers other than powers of 2? For example, > > c1 d3 e3 c3 d1 would mean c1 \times 2/3 { d2 e2 c2 } d1 > > c3 d6 e2 would mean \times 2/3 { c2 d4 } e2 > > c20 c c c c c c c c c e2 d9 d d d d d d d d would mean \times 4/5 { c16 c c > > c c } \times 4/5 { c16 c c c c } e2 \times 8/9 { d8 d d d d d d d d } > > and so on. > > In my opinion it would be useful for simple tuplets - input would look less > > cumbersome and would be faster to type. Of course for complicated tuplets > > and some special uses old syntax should be used. > > What do you think? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lilypond-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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