Re: \tuplet and \tupletSpan to replace \times and tupletSpannerDuration (issue 7094044)

[tdanielsmusic]

On 2013/01/12 16:35:17, dak wrote:
> On 2013/01/12 16:16:55, Trevor Daniels wrote:

> > I prefer \tupletSpan \default too, but I don't think we should
> > advise users not to use \tupletSpan.

> The disadvantage of \tupletSpan is that it makes a non-local change.
That's not
> copy&paste friendly and leads to non-self-contained code pieces.

True, but don't all context properties do that?  Many pieces
will use the same value of tuplet span throughout.

> There is also the consideration that
> if you are having nested \tuplet commands, specifying \tupletSpan
becomes
> non-trivial as it has to be specified as "absolute" timing whereas the
duration
> given to the \tuplet argument is scaled together with its contents

That's more significant.  The user-level docs will need to
warn about this.



https://codereview.appspot.com/7094044/