Re: bug in german manual

[Malte Meyn]

Am 18.08.2015 um 09:01 schrieb Blöchl Bernhard:
> Thanks for clarifying my confusion. As long as I used lilypond I always
> used \tuplet and argue that I did not even know that \times was/is a
> possible alternative.
>
> \time and \times are very close and so - I think - dangerous and
> error-prone.

I think the \times command should be removed completely from lilypond as 
soon as possible (2.19.xx/2.20.0) for the following reasons:
(1) The two commands \times and \tuplet do the same with different 
syntax => confusion (especially for new users who copy old code which 
works in new versions without using convert-ly but doesn’t use the 
\tuplet function mentioned in the LM and NR).
(2) \tuplet has a feature that \times doesn’t have (easily setting 
tupletSpannerDuration) but not the other way round, so using \times has 
no advantage => \times won’t be missed.
(3) As Berndhard said ‘time’ and ‘times’ are indeed very similar words 
and ‘tuplet’ describes the functionality better.