not replace, but one could use both, why not? 2010/10/15 Jethro Van Thuyne <[email protected]>: > 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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