Re: I'm not smart enough to figure out the math for this.

[Mike Solomon]

> On 08 Mar 2016, at 22:00, Michael Rivers <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to make a snippet for students with intentional mistakes for them
> to correct. I want the time signature to say 4/3, but for the music to
> actually be in 3/4. Should I use "scaleDurations", and what should the ratio
> be? Or is there a better way to do this?
> 
> \version "2.19.24"
> 
> \relative c' { \time 4/3 
>               c4 c c | c c c } 
> 

\relative c' {
  \time 4/3
  a4*16/9 a4*16/9 a4*16/9 | 
}

16/9 comes from first scaling quarter notes to 4/3 (so that 4 would fit in a 
bar of 4/3) and then scaling again by 4/3 so that 3 would fit in a bar (like 
triplets).

Cheers,
MS