You are on your own on that one. I think it just leads to the unpleasant chaos of having to look up what those mean in a table somewhere after you have forgotten why you put that into your score.
-Shane On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:20 PM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > Hello! > > Currently Lilypond only supports powers of 2 for specifying duration. > Could we > use the other numbers for common divisions? > > For example: We could use 3 for 2*3/2, 5 for 4*5/4, 6 for 4*3/2, 7 for > 8*7/8, > 9 for 8*9/8, 10 for 8*5/4, 11 for 8*11/8, 12 for 8*3/2 and so on. > > This would be quite useful, especially for the divisions of three (*3/2), > because stuff like this > e8*2/3 dis cis cis8. dis16 e8*2/3 dis cis cis8. dis16 > Is not really nice to enter, while > e12 dis cis cis8. dis16 e12 dis cis cis8. dis16 > would be much less effort. > > Cheers, Valentin
