Re: the question of triplets

[Sarah k Alawami]

lol. Yeah I'll stick with I think it's v 2.16 or something like that until that 
2.17 gets  released to the public as I'm not quite ready to upgrade my scores 
lol!

Tc all.
On Apr 26, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi from Australia!
> 
> You he not given enough information here, because 'triplets' covers a lot of 
> cases. But usually it is three notes in the time of two, so the fraction to 
> use with \times is 2/3. If you use later versions of lilypond such as 2.17, 
> they introduced a better notation which is \tuplet where you can say \tuplet 
> 3/2 { ... } which is easier to understand. \times makes the musical time 
> duration multiplied by the fraction. \tuplet expresses the idea as musicians 
> think about it. You can have \tuplet 5/4 or anything, \tuplet 12/7 for 
> example, but you can do the same with \times.
> 
> Without looking at your score or hearing the music, I can't help you much 
> more.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Andrew
> Melbourne, Australia
>