Simon, Disregard the last message ( I messed up). Anyway, thanks for
the quick response. The essay
on writing readable tuplets was quite interesting. The documentation
mentions nothing about the intricacies of using tuplets---why isn't
there a link to this article from the section 2.1.7 of the Learning
Manual where tuplets are first discussed?
Even before I read the essay I had some second thoughts that \tuplet
7/4 { c16 ... } might be clearer to the player if annotated as
\tuplet 7/8 { c32 ... } since 7 is closer to 8 than to 4 (i.e., I
anticipated the "Nearness Rule"). I also found that certain
arpeggios which appeared in a bassoon composition of mine ( I just
downloaded LilyPond about 10 days ago, knowing nothing about it
before, and learned enough of the basics to engrave that composition)
seem easier to read if the notes are nominal 16ths rather than
following the "Mathematical Rule:"
{ c,,8( \tuplet 5/2 { g'16 c ef g c ) } }
{ df8( \tuplet 7/2 { f16 bf df f bf df f~) } }
So definitely there is a need for flexibility in using tuplets.
I am definitely impressed with LilyPond's capabilities and the input
language (I was a heavy user of LaTeX in my life before retirement, so
I am a fan of WYSIWYM tools).
Sincerely,
Ralph D. Jeffords
P.S. A bit about myself: I was a Research Computer Scientist before I
retired, but I'm also a bassoonist and even play the piano a bit (my
mother was a piano teacher).