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

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 10:45 PM


> Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> [...]
>>> So, i believe that LilyPond shouldn't always follow her users'
>>> intuition, even if they are professional musicians.  In this case, i
>>> think that \tuplet 2/3 is better than \tuplet 3/2 (for 3 notes in time
>>> of 2), because it corresponds to mathematical ratio, and is similar to
>>> scaling durations.
>>
>> +1
> 
> -1 from me for this one.  We have \times for that already and I can't
> count the times it took me to get the fraction right.  And with the name
> "\times" there is at least the mnemonic of the name itself.

Absolutely!  Inverting the fraction for \tuplet was the original reason
for inventing it, IIRC.

Trevor