Frédéric Chiasson wrote:
My point when I started this topic was not to change the whole
definition of the \times function. In fact, I think the function works
quite well as it is. I was mostly talking about improving the
"interface" - i.e . the words and the syntax we use to call the
functions - to make it more intuitive, especially for a
non-programmer. The \times function was an example among other. I was
proposing to change it to \tuplet x:y, simply because it is closer to
the musicians' language (tuplet), and it reflects more the result we
see and we would write manually (3:2 or 7:5, even if we have 6
sixteenth-notes for the 7:5 in contemporary music).
The issue that's emerged out of this discussion, apart from the question
of \times / \tuplet, is that some users (including myself) would like to
see a more obvious (intuitive?) way of generating *sequences* of
tuplets. As has been mentioned before, \times 2/3 { a8 a a b b b }
doesn't produce two triplets, as you might expect, but six notes with a
single bracket and a "3" over it - to get the desired result, it's
necessary to add \set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4). For
new users especially, this is a bit daunting IMO.
Changing \times x/y to \tuplet y:x may be more intuitive for
non-programmer musician, but if they still have to use \set
tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment ...), I don't see that you've
gained much.
For this reason, I think Erik's proposal of a \tupletSequence function
makes a lot of sense. (Though \tupletSet is shorter to type. ;-) )
Brett
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