Re: tuplet stats…

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> On 25.09.2016 19:29, Simon Albrecht wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> is it just me or does \tuplet get 3/2 as first argument >90% of the time?
>> And, assuming that it’s not just me, should we introduce an extra
>> command \triplet to save typing & clutter, especially where triple
>> and duple segments constantly alternate?
>
> I mean, implementation and even convert-ly rule would be a no-brainer.
> And I think this is a good bit of syntactic sugar.
> While a convert-ly rule would of course be totally unnecessary. Still,
> why not?

{
  \time 5/4 \triplet { c4 4 4 } |
}

would not be equivalent to

{
  \time 5/4 \tuplet 3/5 { c4 4 4 } |
}

In other words: there _are_ triplets that are not 3/2.  I'm not sure
it's a very important reason and/or realistic expectation to cater for,
but I thought I'd mention it.

-- 
David Kastrup