Re: \tuplet 3/2 # { ... }

[Guy Stalnaker]

Ah --- that's it. The value is a NOTE DURATION value, not the total
number of notes that are grouped. Doh! The { } will indicate the
group. I confess I was a bit perplexed why the example had "8" when
there were nine notes. LOL

Thanks. That solves it I think.

Guy
Guy Stalnaker
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Brian Barker <address@hidden> wrote:
> At 20:44 14/12/2014 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>> I cannot get this syntax to work with 2.19.13 within Frescobaldi:
>> e'\subitopp |
>> \tuplet 3/2 11 { e'8 e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' } |
>> [...]
>> error: wrong type for argument 3. Expecting music, found 11
>> [...]
>> What am I doing wrong? Without the number preceding the { ... } lilypond
>> does create a series of triplets as I desire, yet the bracket covers all
>> four triplet groupings rather than each triplet. Just trying to avoid the
>> \tuplet 3/2 { } for *every* one, which seems to be the point of the syntax.
>
>
> I'm no expert in this (you may want to read that again!), but I think your
> problem may just be that 11 is an inappropriate value for this argument - in
> which case an error should be flagged but the actual error message is
> perhaps unhelpful. I don't know what you mean the 11 to indicate here, but
> it needs to be a note duration, I think - and one eleventh is hardly
> meaningful in that context. If you want your eighth notes to be shown in
> groups of three, then the extra argument needs to indicate the duration of
> the group, which would be quarter notes - so 4, not 11. I don't have 2.19,
> so I cannot test this directly; does
> \tuplet 3/2 4 { e'8 e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' e' } |
> achieve what you need?
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker - privately
>