Re: duplets

[Mats Bengtsson]

Eric Flesher wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Is it possible to suppress/alter the tuplet number in the case of the  
> duplet shown below? (m. 91, bass staff) According to Stone, this  
> should be engraved as a duplet with the numeral "2" in the bracket.  
> This could of course be represented instead by dotted eighths, but  
> these then get rather cumbersome given the quadruplet that follows on  
> the next beat.

One solution is to use scaled durations within the tuplet:
\relative c'{
\time 9/8
r4. \times 3/2 { c4*1/2 d ~ } d4. |
}


   /Mats