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

[Benkő Pál]

2012/10/9 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> The concept used for printing/grouping tuplets is different than the
> concept used for scaling the time.  That's what makes \times such a
> confusing interface.
>
> The pure scaling alone is available as \scaleDurations.  I have no beef
> with it using 2/3 as input, and I would have trouble coming up with a
> justification of using 3/2 here, actually seeing little point in doing
> so.  One could use something like \compressMusic 3/2 but I don't see
> much of a motivation for that.
>
> But with tuplets, the concept is not really "scale duration by x" but
> rather "n to m notes" including all the necessary visual changes, and
> \times, including its argument style, expresses this concept poorly.
>
> I don't really think that people consider \times and \scaleDurations as
> closely related (and their naming choice is also totally different), so
> I don't think that there will be much of an opportunity confusing the
> behavior of \scaleDurations with \tuplet.

I, for one, consider \times a visually enhanced variant of \scaleDurations.
regardless how it's written, to me both mean metric change (and metric
is represented poorly in graphic anyway).

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