In terms of the parser, wouldn't it just entail treating + as a separator and allowing a list of (fraction | integer)?
Interpreting that data as a time signature I would think isn't too different from what compoundMeter does already. Maybe I'm missing some hidden pitfalls. Saul On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Saul Tobin <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I think merging \compoundMeter into \time as a single command would be > > great. IMO an even bigger improvement would be to support compound meters > > without requiring Scheme syntax. The parser already supports > > comma-separated integer lists and dot-separated symbol lists. How > feasible > > would it be to support arguments to \time (or to music functions > generally) > > of the form 3/8+2/4 or 2+3/8? > > Nightmarish? > > Don't really see anything that would generalize sensibly. > > In particular since you likely want the above to be (3/8)+(2/4) vs (2+3)/8. > > -- > David Kastrup > > >
