Re: Suggestion: Use non powers of 2 for tuplets

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>>> 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.
>> 
>> LilyPond is a notation program first, and your proposal does not map
>> to notation since tuplets also involve choices of beaming and
>> division.
>
> There's a lot of music that contains tuplets (mainly triplets) without
> tuplet numbers.  Such a notation would simplify things.

There are differences in weight and beaming for triplets and sextuplets
that formally come in the same duration.  Just like there is a
difference in

\tuplet 2/3 { c4 c4 }

and

{ c4. c4. }

Musical notation (and thus LilyPond) writes down more than what appears
in the MIDI.

-- 
David Kastrup