On Wed 05 Jun 2024 at 19:24:48 (-0600), Gregory Evans wrote: > Hi Mark thanks for the reply, > so my mwe didn’t show, but the measure is 2/5 which means the duration of > the measure is that of a half note prolated by 5:4, so that is where the 8 > in 9:*8* comes from. > > Regardless of this discrepancy, lilypond is perfectly happy to display > "incomplete" tuplets. see: > > \tuplet 3/2 { > c'4. > } > > so I don’t believe the issue is that the outermost tuplet is not filled > *completely*, rather it seems to be a problem that the outermost tuplet is > filled *with only one tuplet*. Your example displays the sub-tuplet because > the outermost tuplet contains more than a single tuplet. If we replace your > c'4 > c' c' with a separate tuplet, everything behaves as expected as well. Well, > I should say that my assertions as to why the other examples work correctly > is a guess.
> p.s. Again to clarify for anyone following this discussion, it is the > innermost tuplet bracket that disappears for me. I'm not sure I quite understand the issue, as I can run the code but don't know what your expectations are. Cheers, David.
\times 4/5 { \times 8/9 { c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 c'16 } } \times 4/5 { \times 8/9 { c'16 c' c' c' c' c' c' c' c' } c'4 c' c' } \tuplet 3/2 { c'4. }
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