Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> writes: > 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.
LilyPond is a notation program first, and your proposal does not map to notation since tuplets also involve choices of beaming and division. > 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, It also is distracting to read (even if Baroque autographs tend to omit tuplet numbers like that). Use \tuplet instead. > while e12 dis cis cis8. dis16 e12 dis cis cis8. dis16 would be much > less effort. It does not indicate what note values to use visually. If we only wanted to produce Midi, we'd not need to distinguish cis and des either. -- David Kastrup