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Re: the question of triplets


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: the question of triplets
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:41:43 +0200
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Hilary Snaden <address@hidden> writes:

> After using LilyPond for seven years, I've got used to the \times x/y
> notation. How long will it remain available alongside \tuplet y/x?

There are no plans to remove it.  However, all of the documentation in
2.18 has been converted to use \tuplet, and convert-ly will do a
one-time conversion as well when going across version 2.17.11.

\tuplet has a nicer way to deal with tupletSpannerDuration, by the way.

So you can continue using it if you want to, but in a few years,
newcomers might no longer recognize what you are doing even though
LilyPond most likely will.

>> So if you are using a version of LilyPond earlier than 2.17.11, use
>> \times and remember that the fraction is just opposite of what you'd
>> think it should be.
>
> \tuplet y/x is more logical, and would have been a better way of doing
> it from the outset, but it's really not that difficult mentally to
> associate \times x/y with playing y notes in the time of x.

It usually takes frequent use to arrive at that mental state, and there
are enough real problems with writing music that we don't need to create
artificial hurdles just to keep things interesting.

That's why in this case we agreed on "disappearing" the "old" way of
writing tuplets from the LilyPond code base.  Sure, it will take a few
years to go down the pipes.

-- 
David Kastrup




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