Re: How to get irrational tuplets inside a regular meter like 9/8

[Urs Liska]

Am 09.11.2016 um 01:25 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
>
> On 11/8/16 4:02 PM, "mclaren" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Reality check: programmers are ont in the business of telling composers
>> how
>> they should compose. Programmers should be in the business of getting the
>> computer to represent the kinds of notatoins that musicians use. Musicians
>> use broken tuplets nowadays. Lots of composers use lots of broken tuplets.
>> Setting up Lilypond so that it crashes if you use too many broken tuplets
>> in
>> a measure is ridiculous. It's on the level of setting up Lilypond to crash
>> if the user tries to enter a time signature other than 4/4, or note values
>> smaller than a sixteenth note.
>
> Patches are always welcome.

It's ridiculous to ask Phantomas for patches, I'd say. He/she is the
musician and we're the programmers. So it's *our* historic duty to
develop what he/she needs to perform his/her art. If we should grow
beyond our inherent incompetence, that is ;-)

>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
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