Re: Make documentation reflect presence of \tuplet (issue 7220052)

[Benkő Pál]

2013/1/30  <address@hidden>:
> On 2013/01/29 17:25:19, Keith wrote:
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> https://codereview.appspot.com/7220052/diff/4001/Documentation/learning/common-notation.itely#newcode506
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>> Documentation/learning/common-notation.itely:506: ratio of the number
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> of notes
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>> to play in relation to the nominal
>> "... The fraction is the number of notes in the tuplet over the number
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> that
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>> would normally fill the duration of the tuplet. For triplets, ..."
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>
> We have a fundamental difference in our terminology.
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> For you, a triplet consists of three notes.  For me, a triplet consists
> of a single note, three of which make up a triplet group.

let me add to the confusion: for me a triplet is a group of more than
one notes with notated/actual duration ratio 3/2 and with a not quite
arbitrary internal metric structure, i.e. I'd beam (if we had)
\tuplet 3/2 { c8. c16 c8 } \tuplet 6/4 { c8. c16 c8 }
as
________   ________
|  _|  |   |   |_ |
|.  |  |   |.  |  |

(ugh, I hope ascii art comes through).

p