Re: Tuplet number direction

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> On 15.04.2016 00:51, Thomas Morley wrote:
>> (1) The TupletNumbers are always inside the bow, I coded no
>> possibility to print the Number cutting the bow.
>> I maybe add it later.
>> (2) What to do at line-break?
>
> Wouldn’t it better do disallow line-breaks during tuplets
> (i.e. \override TupletBracket.breakable = ##f – if that has an
> effect), or at least ignore such situations for this particular style?
> Clearly, there are situations where it would be better or even
> necessary to break tuplets, but I don’t think such situations occur
> before 1900,

Josquin des Prez?  I've sung some Missa from him with wildly augmented
triplets crossing a number of bars.  Timing them accurately took some
math because at that speed there was no natural flow any more really.

That would be early 16th century.

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David Kastrup