On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:43 PM, David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >>>> For voices with lyrics it is common to put triplet indications >>>> always above the staff, using the following rules. >>>> >>>> . stems up or down, no beam: as usual (i.e., a number and a >>>> bracket at the top, as if using \tupletUp) >>>> >>>> . stems up, with beam: as usual (i.e., a number over the beam) >>>> >>>> The last case, however, is unusual: >>>> >>>> . stem down, with beam: a number and a *slur* at the top. >> >> BTW, these rules can be found in the vocal score of `Arabella' (by >> Richard Strauss), for example. >> >>> It strikes me that I've seen code somewhere that uses slurs instead of >>> brackets. I find this: >>> http://www.lilypondforum.de/index.php?topic=1658.0 >> >> Yes, I can remember that also – very nice! >> >>> The results look great, but of course, the slur is broken. It might >>> not be hard to modify that routine to do what you want.. >> >> Oh, I actually don't really care whether the slur is broken or not. >> I'm rather interested in having a lilypond option to make it behave >> (i.e., differentiate between tuplet slur and tuplet brackets) as >> outlined above. > > I've attached a patch which permits tuplets with slurs instead of > brackets. Sorry that you have to build LilyPond to use it. > > It's pretty rough. For one thing, the slur shapes for inclined slurs > are probably not ideal. > > To get the bowed-tuplets, you set TupletBracket.tuplet-slur to #t. > > You can move the slur closer/further from the number by setting > TupletNumber.padding to the value you'd like (default: 0.3). Don't > know what other > consequences there might be when setting TupletNumber.padding, but I > don't want to add more properties unless it's really necessary. > > To get the behavior you want, check the example file. There is a > Scheme function which > should put your rules into effect. >
Here's an image of the example file. David
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