Re: Compound time signature style

[Dan Eble]

On Nov 6, 2014, at 08:46 , David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I lean towards not consulting the style here.  \compoundMeter to me
> feels like it should just be numeric.
> 
> Of course, to allow for full laziness, it might make sense to interpret
> 
>    \compoundMeter #'(4 . 4)
> 
> properly as 4/4 then because one can then cheat one's way around writing
> 
>    \compoundMeter 4/4
> 
> for a numeric time signature.

My gut feeling is that formatting a compound meter should encompass formatting 
a simple meter, and I’ve been trying to understand where to draw the line.

If both \compoundMeter #(2 3 8) and \compoundMeter 4/4 could be made to work, 
why bother keeping both \compoundMeter and \time?  Why not just let \time do 
all the work?

(I’m not proposing that I combine these commands, but that I leave the code in 
a state from which it is easier to move later.)

Thanks,
— 
Dan