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

[Graham Percival]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:49:39PM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> 
> David Kastrup wrote Monday, October 08, 2012 10:45 PM
> 
> > Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> >>> 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 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.

Woah, really?  I thought the whole point was to avoid the
confusion between \time and \times.  I think it would be
extremely confusing for "\tuplet x/y" to mean the same thing as
"\times y/x".

- Graham