Re: Suggestion: spacing for swing music?

[bb]

Am 04.08.2013 16:21, schrieb David Kastrup:
> bb <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Am 04.08.2013 14:27, schrieb David Kastrup:
> > > bb <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > It is impossible to set slurs inside triples.
> > > Wrong.
> > >
> > > > Is a widely used practice to mark swing rhythm. And I found it
> > > > impossible to beam an eighth with a sixteenth note. (it is often used,
> > > > where the second note. the sixteenth note does have a short additional
> > > > (sixteenth) beam - may be my knowledge of lilypond does not have the
> > > > necessary depths for such a construct?)
> > > Maybe you should look up the syntax of opening slurs and beams in the
> > > manual.  They are written _after_ the note they apply to.  This has
> > > nothing at all to do with triplets.
> > >
> > > > May be you can convince the developers to allow slurs in triplets to
> > > > mark the swing rhythm? (I do not try it, because my ideas usually are
> > > > disliked.)
> > > >
> > > > BTW I do not think this is a bug, it simply is not implemented. BTW I
> > > > am not sure that the bug blog is the correct place for this topic?
> > > The bug list (it is not a "blog") is the right place for both feature
> > > requests and tentative bug reports.  The bug squad will pick up from
> > > there if necessary.  The developer list might be appropriate for
> > > discussing missing functionality when it is not clear how this
> > > functionality should be accessed in the first place.  The user list
> > > might be appropriate if the user suspects that this is just user error.
> > > If the user error is triggered by bad documentation, this can lead to a
> > > problem report for the documentation on the bug list again.
> > Try this:
> And then an example where the rhythms don't add up and it is quite
> unclear what it is supposed to show.  And the entire text for all of
> that is "Try this:".
>
> Seriously: if you want people to pay attention to you, you should try to
> provide a minimum of information and explanation.  Just dumping some
> code is not going to bring your point across all by itself.
The start of the thread *Suggestion: spacing for swing music?
*from 2013/7/13 was the question for*
**spacing to show the correct timing and notation of swing music*.

If you think my code does not relate to this topic and is eventually 
useless, please simply trash it and the other responses! I am sure you 
have administration rights.

Kind regards BB