Re: something strange with tuplets

[Markus Schneider]

H Adam,

try

\times 6/4 { b16 c d e }

Your are referring to 16th, 3 beats have 6x 16th - but you want only 4.

HTH
Markus


"Adam Good" <address@hidden> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi, I'm getting strange results when trying to make a tuplet grouping...
> the piece is in 12/8
> i want four 16th notes within three 8th notes
>
> in the example below i have 2 staves.
> 1. the top is showing the proper rhythm and proper grouping of 8th
> notes.
> 2. bottom is a mirror of the above except i want to cram four 16th
> notes into the first three 8th notes of bar 1.
>
> but you can see how the barline is getting shoved over to the wrong
> place. it's interpreting two 16th notes as a full 8th notes for some
> reason?
>
> ---
>
> \relative
>    \new Staff { \key c \major
>
>   #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 3 8)
>   #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 3 4)
>   #(revert-auto-beam-setting '(end * * 12 8) 9 8)
>
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 12 8) 3 8)
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 12 8) 7 8)
> #(override-auto-beam-setting '(end 1 8 12 8) 10 8)
>
>    \key e \minor
>    \time 12/8
>
> \repeat volta 2 { \mark \default
> c'8 d e d c b g a4. d,4 | c'4 b8 c d b g a4. a4 |
> c8 d e d c b g a4. d,4 | c'4 b8 c d b g a4. a4 } \break
>
> \repeat volta 2 { \mark \default
> \set tupletNumberFormatFunction = #fraction-tuplet-formatter
> \times 3/4 {b16 c d e} d8 c b g a4. d,4 | c'4 b8 c d b g a4. a4 |
> c8 d e d c b g a4. d,4 | c'4 b8 c d b g a4. a4 } \break
>
> }
>
> \version "2.8.1"  % necessary for upgrading to future LilyPond versions.