Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 3095 in lilypond: Patch: Create a \tuplet function to complement \times and tupletSpannerDuration

[lilypond]

Comment #6 on issue 3095 by address@hidden: Patch: Create a \tuplet function  
to complement \times and tupletSpannerDuration
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3095

I would lean towards angling for the full monty, namely issue 3100, instead  
of the well-confined patch in this issue which switches to \tuplet more or  
less as a hidden option.

Issue 3100 will require followup work to make not just the documentation  
examples but also the documentation text match the changed interface.

I am not fully enthused with the optional second argument for  
tupletSpannerDuration.  A separate \tupletDuration <duration> would be  
cleaner.  However, it is quite likely that frequent changes between 1/16  
and 1/8 tuplets would make that cumbersome.  It is also somewhat unclean  
(though convenient) that the tuplet spanner duration is sticky beyond the  
\tuplet command itself.  However, making it temporary (as in: restore the  
previous setting) is not really feasible since it is a plain context  
property, and those are not managed using a stack.

So in short: seems like the best we can do.  Providing at least an optional  
\tupletDuration (or \tupletGrouping ?) might still make sense for some use  
cases where the alternative \tuplet 2/3 4. { } might be just too awkward.