Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn)

[Bryan Stanbridge]

John Mandereau wrote:
> There has already been a *huge* thread on the -user list about this, and
> the conclusion was that the only realistic change we could do was
> renaming \times to \tuplet, and nothing else; the point of my remark in
> the bug tracker was to ask developers' opinion about actually doing
> this, and not about reopening the discussion -- unless you have new
> ideas, of course.

I am still very much opposed to this as a mandatory change. Aliasing 
times to tuplet would be great. But I've spent a long time with the 
\times syntax and have never had any problem confusing it with \time. 
\tuplet is longer to type and falls much more strangely on the keyboard 
than does \times. Times is mathematically precise and describes exactly 
what is happening when the keyword is applied. If there is such an 
overwhelming problem with the confusion (and I still have trouble 
believing that to be the case), then an alias should be created, but we 
should not remove the \times keyword.

Cheers,
Bryan...