Re: Suggestion: Use non powers of 2 for tuplets

[David Kastrup]

Kevin Barry <barrykp@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the convenience of this feature does not justify the added
> complexity.

It's mostly the conceptual vagueness that is the problem here.  There
are no actual note values corresponding graphically to the input in an
unambiguous manner, so LilyPond would need to do the equivalent of a
MIDI-to-notation converter in picking a visual representation (and there
are even things like composers disagreeing about whether septuplets are
7 in the space of 4 or 7 in the space of 8).

Does 12 mean sextuplets or triplets?  What is the meaning of 12.. ?
It's just far too muddy domain to make a major part of the syntax.

-- 
David Kastrup