Thank you, that works and is very helpful.

Best,
Carl

>
>
> carltesta <ctesta <at> wesleyan.edu> writes:
>
>> I am working on typesetting another composer's music. In their music
>> they
>> prefer to notate a 5:4 tuplet (5 sixteenth notes in the space of 4
>> sixteenth
>> notes) as 5:1 (5 sixteenths in the space of 1 pulse (quarter note). Is
>> it
>> possible change Lilypond's MIDI encoding so that if I write the tuplet
>> as
>> 5:1 that it will play it back as a 5:4? Instead of 5 sixteenth notes in
>> the
>> space of 1 sixteenth note?
>>
>
> Do not expect that you will need to adjust the MIDI.  LilyPond uses the
> same
> counting of time for spacing and for MIDI, so when the placement of notes
> relative to bar lines and other voices is correct, so will be the MIDI.
>
> Maybe best to enter the music under usual conventions, and replace the
> printed
> notation
>   \once\override TupletNumber #'text = "5:1 (Wesleyan notation)"
>   \times 4/5 { a16 b a g a }
>
> You can tell LilyPond to print sixteenth notes that actually lasts four
> times
> as long, as if they were quarters (but it would not help you to have
> LilyPond
> do the math if you need to do math yourself to figure out what to input).
> Details in Notation Reference 1.2.1
>
> \relative c'' <<
>  \override TupletNumber #'text = #tuplet-number::calc-fraction-text
>  { g' \times 1/5 {a b a g a} b4 \times 1/5 {a16*4 g a b a} } \\
>  {b,4 b b b} >>
>
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