2012/10/9 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > 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). p _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
