Saul Tobin <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> writes: >> 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. > > 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.
What about 2+3/8 ? What about the whole "+ is not really addition" concept? This gives a whole lot of garbage unexpected meanings. For the sake of a single infrequent command. -- David Kastrup
