Ah --- that's it. The value is a NOTE DURATION value, not the total
number of notes that are grouped. Doh! The { } will indicate the
group. I confess I was a bit perplexed why the example had "8" when
there were nine notes. LOLThanks. That solves it I think. Guy Guy Stalnaker [email protected] On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 20:44 14/12/2014 -0600, you wrote: >> >> I cannot get this syntax to work with 2.19.13 within Frescobaldi: >> e'\subitopp | >> \tuplet 3/2 11 { e'8 e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' } | >> [...] >> error: wrong type for argument 3. Expecting music, found 11 >> [...] >> What am I doing wrong? Without the number preceding the { ... } lilypond >> does create a series of triplets as I desire, yet the bracket covers all >> four triplet groupings rather than each triplet. Just trying to avoid the >> \tuplet 3/2 { } for *every* one, which seems to be the point of the syntax. > > > I'm no expert in this (you may want to read that again!), but I think your > problem may just be that 11 is an inappropriate value for this argument - in > which case an error should be flagged but the actual error message is > perhaps unhelpful. I don't know what you mean the 11 to indicate here, but > it needs to be a note duration, I think - and one eleventh is hardly > meaningful in that context. If you want your eighth notes to be shown in > groups of three, then the extra argument needs to indicate the duration of > the group, which would be quarter notes - so 4, not 11. I don't have 2.19, > so I cannot test this directly; does > \tuplet 3/2 4 { e'8 e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' } | > achieve what you need? > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker - privately > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
