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Re: [talk] easy tuplets
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [talk] easy tuplets |
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Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:07:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> Currently, durations are limited to powers of 2 (plus dots).
> Making a triplet involves the wordy \times x/y { ... } or a *x/y
> scaling factor. We could avoid this (in common cases) by allowing
> arbitrary integer durations.
>
> c4 e \times 2/3 { c4 e g }
> into:
> c4 e c6 e g
>
> The general rule is that the duration x is (whole note)/x. So in
> addition to the current
> 1 2 4 8
> we have
> 3 => \times 2/3 { c2 } (whole note divided by 3)
> 6 => \times 2/3 { c4 } (whole note divided by 6)
> ... etc.
>
> These notes can be grouped together like we do for beaming, and
> produce tuplet brackets according to tuplet-beaming rules.
I don't think we have "tuplet brackets according to tuplet-beaming
rules".
Take a look at
\times 2/3 { c8 c c c c c c c c c c c
c8 c c c c c c c c c c c }
> I know that this idea has been floated at least twice in the past
> ten years, but since this is only a [talk] idea, I'm not going to
> bother looking up those discussions in the archives. Remember
> that you're not allowed to call me a lazy idiot for not looking up
> those discussions because this isn't a formal proposal. This
> email thread should have "the casual atmosphere of a friendly
> discussion at a pub or coffee house", and that nobody "will
> complain about technically infeasible ideas, wasting developer’s
> time, having to defend the parser, or anything like that".
Would you be rather thinking of a Scottish or a Canadian pub here?
--
David Kastrup