Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 10:57, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG escreveu:
> >> I suppose you could add the command \times 3:2 {a b c} to do exactly
> >> the same as \times 2/3 {a b c} [...]
> >
> > If at all, then
> >
> >   \tuplet 3:2 {...}
>
> I don't mind changing \times to \tuplet, and agree that the confusion with
> \time is a bad thing. We could make \tuplet accept 3:2 2/3 and 3.
>
> Since it is a change that can be accomodated with convert-ly, we wouldn't
> even need a major version bump for it.

I think these changes sound scary, it is an additional hack in the parser 
machinery. I think it would be cleaner if \times could be changed to a proper 
music function, e.g. as
\tuplet 2 3 {...}
This would remove rules from the parser instead of adding them.

(Hm, my suggestion is not really in line with this discussion; I can agree 
that \tuplet 2 3 would be easier to confuse with "3:2" than \tuplet 2/3 is).

-- 
Erik