Re: Suggestion: Use non powers of 2 for tuplets

[ebenezer]

Hello,

Does \scaleDurations not already fit the bill?

See the section "Scaling durations" at 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation-big-page


On 2021-03-26 02:19, Valentin Petzel wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Currently Lilypond only supports powers of 2 for specifying duration. Could we
> use the other numbers for common divisions?
>
> For example: We could use 3 for 2*3/2, 5 for 4*5/4, 6 for 4*3/2, 7 for 8*7/8,
> 9 for 8*9/8, 10 for 8*5/4, 11 for 8*11/8, 12 for 8*3/2 and so on.
>
> This would be quite useful, especially for the divisions of three (*3/2),
> because stuff like this
> e8*2/3 dis cis cis8. dis16 e8*2/3 dis cis cis8. dis16
> Is not really nice to enter, while
> e12 dis cis cis8. dis16 e12 dis cis cis8. dis16
> would be much less effort.
>
> Cheers, Valentin