Re: [proposal] easy triplets and tuplets - Draft 3

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 10/08/2012 12:40 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> I diasagree.  Whether or not you we provide separate commands actually
> doing the overrides, the choice between all those variants does not
> appear to convey musical information individually but just constitutes a
> different choice of consistent notation throughout a piece.

Well, that's the point -- if you look at various contemporary pieces (e.g. 
Ferneyhough), the tuplet style is _not_ consistent throughout the piece but is 
dependent on musical context.  Some tuplets are just a single number (e.g. 
"standard" triplets or quintuplets), some have ratios, some have a single number 
and an overall duration, some have ratios and overall durations, ....

It sounds like a complicated mess but visually it's actually quite sane and 
legible and makes for an easier read than a single "standard" tuplet notation would.

As you say, it would be a PITA to notate such a piece having to use \overrides 
all over the place to change the style, which is why it would be very helpful if 
the \tuplet syntax could allow the choice between these stylistic variants to be 
made concisely.  Cf. my very provisional syntax ideas, which I imagine probably 
aren't workable as-is; but could something functionally equivalent and similarly 
concise be worked out?