Re: entering music without \time

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Erik Sandberg <address@hidden> writes:
> [...]
> I can try a quasi-formal definition of what the tupletification would do:
>
> For each note, detect its tuplet fraction A/B. This could e.g. be done by 
> comparing the actual duration (1/12 for a8*2/3) with the duration it looks 
> like it has; i.e. 1/8 for a8*2/3. Take the fraction Actual/Visual duration 
> and reduce it to A/B s.t. gcd(A,B)=1.
> [...]
> Sadly, I don't know if this stuff would be possible to do today in Lilypond; 
> I 
> am not a scheme hacker myself. Hackers / Nicolas, does this stuff sound 
> reasonable in any way?

I got lost in your descriptions, not being exactly awaken.
What would be possible is to have
\tuplefy { ..notes.. }
change the notes which duration has a fraction part to be tuplets.
I'm not sure I understand the actual/visual duration thing.