Re: Non-default tuplet numbers

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:00 AM
Subject: Non-default tuplet numbers


> The documentation in the NR for non-default tuplet numbers has an example 
> that appears to me to be musical nonsense. For people coming across this 
> concept for the first time it is simply utterly confusing. All the bars 
> are 4/4 but the tuplets refer to 7 and 12:7 and so on. This is under the 
> selected snippets section of 1.2.1 Writing rhythms/Tuplets.
>
> Can I rewrite this to make sense, and submit a documentation patch?
>
> [I think this snippet is in LSR, where it is exactly the same nonsense 
> (sorry!)]
>
>
> Andrew

If the documentation comes from a snippet then the snippet will need to be 
edited on the LSR and then imported to Lilypond.  See 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/lsr-work for details 
on this process.


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Phil Holmes