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Re: \times -> \tuplet
From: |
Graham Percival |
Subject: |
Re: \times -> \tuplet |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:13:47 -0800 |
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:57:55 +0100
Rune Zedeler <address@hidden> wrote:
> Graham Percival skrev:
> > OTOH, those people are probably more technically inclined than
> > those who will move to the new \tuplet command, so they can write
> > their own python script to change all the new \tuplet back into
> > \times. We could even add that script to LSR...
>
> IMO the nice way to do this would be to add a "conservative"-option
> to convert-ly. When conservative is on, convert-ly tries to stay as
> close as possible to the old syntax (i.e. keeping "times"), when
> conservative is off, it tries to use as many of the new constructs as
> it can (ie. translating times->tuplet). Of course we "could" (sigh)
> expand the use of the conservative option to lots of other
> constructs.
Like \relative { => \relative c' {
> This would take a lot of time, but adding the skeleton,
> i.e. reading the option from the command line and making it
> accessible from the convert-ly-rules could afaics be quickly done by
> a python-hacker.
Well, this is always the problem with open-source: it takes to
time implement new features, and then it takes time to maintain
them. (that said, this could probably be done in such a way that
maintenance is not an issue)
Cheers,
- Graham
- \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn), John Mandereau, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn), Bryan Stanbridge, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Graham Percival, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Graham Percival, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Rune Zedeler, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet,
Graham Percival <=
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Mats Bengtsson, 2008/01/28
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Graham Percival, 2008/01/28
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Werner LEMBERG, 2008/01/27
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/01/29
- Re: \times -> \tuplet, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/01/27
RE: \times -> \tuplet (was Re: Issue 566 in lilypond: showStaffSwitch -> \staffSwitchOn), Trevor Daniels, 2008/01/28