Re: displaying triplet in 3/4 time

[Tim McNamara]

On Jun 21, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Ole Schmidt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While engraving I came across the  problem to display a simple  
> triplet which consists of a quarter and an eighth note
> and it seems to be difficult. The default beaming is odd and using  
> brackets leads to an error warning.
> Do I completely miss something or is it a known problem?
> thanks for a hint
>
> ole
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>  \version "2.13.7"
>
>    \new Staff            {
>     \clef "bass"
>     \key g \minor
>     \time 3/4
>     \relative e {
>
>     	c2. ~ |	\times 2/3 { c4 c8 } \times 2/3 { c'8 b c } d,4 ~ |  
> \break
>
>       c2. ~ |	\times 2/3 { c4[ c8] } \times 2/3 { c'8 b c } d,4 ~ |  
> \break
>
>    } }
>
>    \layout { ragged-right = ##t }
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

As a musician I think I would rather see:

        c2. ~ |  \times 2/3 { c8~ c8 c8 } \times 2/3 { c'8 b c } d,4  
~ | \break

It just seems like it would be easier to count.

Tim