Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen <at> zonnet.nl> writes:
I am not in favour of allowing different commands \times 2/3 and \tuplet3/2
to do the same job. My voice would go to: just keep \times x/y the wayit
is. I can't see what makes 3/2 easier than 2/3. And having the choiceof two
commands doing the same job with a slightly different syntax onlymakes
things more confusing for me.
Currently, everyone who thinks of a triplet as a 3:2 ratio, 3 notes in the
usual time for 2, suffers similar confusion when trying to remember \times
2/3. Triplets are usually written with a simple 3, but 4-note-tuplets are
often designated 4:3 for clarity, while LilyPond requires the reversed
fraction in \times 3/4 {}
The likely outcome would be to document only \tuplet 3/2 (or \tuplet3 or
\triplet depending on what we choose) and have convert-ly change \times x/y
to \tuplet y/x, but let LilyPond accept \times x/y from users who have
developed the habit. Then there is only one syntax in the documentation.