Re: Swing indications in text markup?

[David Rogers]

On Aug 6, 2004, at 1:33 PM, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:

> A swing or jazz 8th is far less different from an 8th
> than a triplet, or even than a quintuplet 3:2.  Experiment
> with very small time values now, it will save you time.


What you say is true. However, the original poster is asking for a way 
to insert a traditionally-used conventional notation, not for an 
accurate mathematical description (the latter is in fact not possible, 
since there is no single correct value, only a vague range of values.)

David Rogers