Re: Using identifiers for triplets

[Mats Bengtsson]

That's a straightforward application of section "12.1.2 Simple 
substitution functions":
\version "2.10.0"
trip = #(define-music-function (parser location music) (ly:music?)
 #{ \times 2/3 $music #})

  /Mats

Anders Nelstrom wrote:
> Is it possible to create an identifier to save typing when triplets 
> are required? For example, instead of typing:
>
> \times 2/3 { c8 e g } \times 2/3 { c g e } c
>
> it would be great to use:
>
> \trip { c8 e g } \trip { c g e } c4
>
> or such like.
>
> I appreciate that the \times command is flexible, and I have used it 
> occasionally to represent septuplets, and other oddities, but it feels 
> like an awful lot of typing for the common triplet!
>
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