>> 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.
Werner
