Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

[Hans Aberg]

On 27 Jan 2008, at 15:38, John Mandereau wrote:

> > Note the difference:
> >    \times 3/4 {...}
> > means a quadruplet, though in music, it would be more natural to  
> > write
> >    \tuplet 4/3 {...}
> > or
> >    \tuplet 4:3 {...}
> > (I think this may make a difference in some more complex situations,
> > but I do not recall any immediate example.)
>
> There has already been a *huge* thread on the -user list about  
> this, ...

I did not see that thread.

> ...and
> the conclusion was that the only realistic change we could do was
> renaming \times to \tuplet, and nothing else; the point of my  
> remark in
> the bug tracker was to ask developers' opinion about actually doing
> this, and not about reopening the discussion -- unless you have new
> ideas, of course.

Then I do not think there is much point of making a \tuplet - it  
would not even be righth, from the musical point of view.

  Hans Åberg