Re: Abbreviations

[Simon Albrecht]

Am 04.04.2015 um 14:13 schrieb Johan Vromans:
> On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:55:51 +0200 (CEST)
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > It depends.  Especially \tuplet is awfully long, and it makes scores
> > with a lot of triplets extremely hard to read.
> Maybe we can conceive of a good, intuitive and short alternative notation
> for triplets (and/or tuplets)?
>
> E.g. (just a wild shot) ⦓ c8 a f ⦔ or ⸦ c8 a f ⸧ ?
Intuitive is a keyword here: both notations you suggest will be 
difficult to type for most – the first one isn’t even supported by some 
good fonts I just tried. Second, it represents an infix notation, which 
is deprecated. Plus, \tuplet is a music function and a syntax like { 
c8\{ a f\} } (as an example for postfix syntax) would be difficult in 
technical terms, I think. But to be available as default, it should be 
in some way characteristic of a tuplet, which is difficult to achieve 
using such short identifiers.
On the grounds of snippets or stylesheets, it’s of course well possible 
to use something like

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.19.17"

"\\*" = #(define-music-function (parser location mus) (ly:music?)
           #{ \tuplet 3/2 4 $mus #})

\relative { \* { c'8 d e f g16 a b8 } c2 }
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

But I think such a solution isn’t really appropriate for the codebase, 
isn’t it? It would contradict general custom.

Yours, Simon