Re: \times -> \tuplet

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > 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;

Yes; even if it's mathematical nonsense, the nominator/denominator
order shouldn't change.

> I am still very much opposed to this as a mandatory change. Aliasing
> times to tuplet would be great.

Yes.

> \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.

Only a native English speaker can say that \time is difficult to mix
up with \times.  I think that my English is not very bad, and I still
sometimes mix them up.


    Werner