Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Jonathan Henkelman escreveu:
> Erik Sandberg <mandolaerik <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I think these changes sound scary, it is an additional hack in the parser 
>> machinery. I think it would be cleaner if \times could be changed to a 
> proper 
>> music function, e.g. as
>> \tuplet 2 3 {...}
>> This would remove rules from the parser instead of adding them.
>>
>> (Hm, my suggestion is not really in line with this discussion; I can agree 
>> that \tuplet 2 3 would be easier to confuse with "3:2" than \tuplet 2/3 is).
>>
> 
> I think Eriks point is actually well founded.  The discussion started with my 
> discussion of trying to trim down the grammer complexity. Adding syntax is 
> not 
> really in that direction.
> 
> That being said, \tuplet 2 3 {...} is rather confusing.  I can live with 

Another option: 

- add \tuplet 3:2 {.. }

- replace \times 2/3 by \times #'(2 . 3)  ; this can be implemented with 
a standard music function

   

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