Mr. Payne:
My thanks to you and Mr. Kastrup for addressing my inquiry.
Please check my understanding. The “1” and the “4” refer to a quarter note, the span over which the command “\times 2/3” acts. Therefore, in the example (attached) the tuplets are in the span of a quarter note. If I had wanted the tuplets over the spam of a 16th note, I would use “1” and “16.” Am I correct?
Thank you for your kind attention.
Mark
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Nick Payne
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 11:23 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: tupletSpannerDuration
On 19/01/13 18:04, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:
Hello:
From the manual:
\relative c' {
\time 2/4
\set tupletSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 1 4)
\times 2/3 { c8 c c c c c }
}
I understand everything except how the “1” and “4” relate to the notation.
Have a look at the section of the documentation on time administration (http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/special-rhythmic-concerns#time-administration): "ly:make-moment n m constructs a duration of n/m of a whole note. For example, ly:make-moment 1 8 is an eighth note duration and ly:make-moment 7 16 is the duration of seven sixteenths notes."
BTW, both #(ly:make-moment 1 4) and #(ly:make-moment 1/4) are valid, and both forms can be found in the documentation (see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/learning/types-of-properties) for examples of the second. Is one form preferred over the other? If so, maybe that should be consistently used throughout the documentation.
Nick
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