Re: Suggestion: Use non powers of 2 for tuplets

[Carl Sorensen]

On 3/26/21, 5:41 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Valentin Petzel" 
<lilypond-user-bounces+carl.d.sorensen=gmail.com@gnu.org on behalf of 
valentin@petzel.at> wrote: 
    
    Your points about beaming and grouping are reasonable, but the idea is not 
    replacing tuplet with such a notation, but making such notation easier. And 
    there are many cases where the default grouping by beat structure is pretty 
    much what you want. In the worst case one can simply group the notes 
manually, 
    which is still much faster than doing lots of different tuplets and hiding 
the 
    Brackets (if you do a piece that frequently changes between division 2 and 
    division 3 this takes a stupid amount of time!)

You could easily write your own music function to write in division 3.

\inThree {c8 c c}

Or \"in3"{c8 c c}

Or \in³{c8 c c}

Your function could do whatever you would like to do about hiding brackets or 
anything else you wanted to do.

And it wouldn't require rewriting LilyPond's parser.  Or hardwire 
non-conventional notation into LilyPond's core.

Carl