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

[David Kastrup]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/10/2012 09:52 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> However, forcing a certain form of input representation for a certain
>> form of output is a nuisance for programmatically generated music.
>>
>> I'd rather recommend using something separate like
>> \tupletStyle "3:2", \tupletStyle "3", \tupletStyle "".
>
> That's fair enough, but I'm still inclined to think that whatever the
> display style used, there may be some value in allowing tuplets to be
> entered not just as ratios of numbers, but as ratios of musical
> durations: e.g. {8*7}/{4*3}, or {16*6}/{8.~8}.

For that kind of special application, a specially and separately named
tuplet command taking several durations as argument would be appropriate
rather than trying to cram everything into the standard command.

-- 
David Kastrup