Re: \times -> \tuplet

[Rune Zedeler]

Graham Percival skrev:
> OTOH, those people are probably more technically inclined than
> those who will move to the new \tuplet command, so they can write
> their own python script to change all the new \tuplet back into
> \times.  We could even add that script to LSR...

IMO the nice way to do this would be to add a "conservative"-option to 
convert-ly. When conservative is on, convert-ly tries to stay as close 
as possible to the old syntax (i.e. keeping "times"), when conservative 
is off, it tries to use as many of the new constructs as it can (ie. 
translating times->tuplet). Of course we "could" (sigh) expand the use 
of the conservative option to lots of other constructs. This would take 
a lot of time, but adding the skeleton, i.e. reading the option from the 
command line and making it accessible from the convert-ly-rules could 
afaics be quickly done by a python-hacker.

I still vote against the times->tuplet thing, but if we decide to do it 
nevertheless then this is imo the best way.

-Rune