On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:07 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > It would mean that 3/2+2/5 would mean #((3 2) (2 5)) basically wherever > you chose to write it. Since we don't have a use for it anywhere except > after \time (and it is actually a rather uncommon use of time), it seems > like overkill. > > One could try to devise a scheme where, say > > 2+3/4 -> #(2 3 . 4) (meter) > 2+3+2 -> #(2 3 2) (beat pattern) > 2/2+3/4 -> #((2 . 2) (3 . 4)) (meter) > > and then figure out predicates that can reliably tell a meter from a > beat pattern. But it would not really extend to "irrational meters", I > think. And I am not sure that this kind of complexity for interpreting > strings of the kind [0-9+/]+ is really helpful.
scrap it, then. I'll keep my €25 :P Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
