Re: Constructive Criticism and a Question

[Jonathan Henkelman]

--- Brett Duncan wrote:

> > \tuplet 3:2 {c4 c8 c c4}
> >
> > should be printed as
> >
> > |----- 3 ----|
> >       __
> >  |   |  |   |
> >  |   |  |   |
> > X   X  X   X
> >
> > or as
> >
> > |- 3 -| |- 3 -|
> >
> >  |   |\  |\  |
> >  |   |   |   |
> > X   X   X   X

If we are going to worry about seperating the music from the typesetting, then 
it is worth observing that these two are equivalent musically.  It doesn't 
matter which way the typesetter chooses as it's default as they are both 
valid.  If a more advanced user wants to change the default behaviour they can 
do so using \setTupletSpanner.  The beginner user is going to get something 
meaningful and what they had intended musically.

I would propose the default implementation tries to figure it out from the 
length of the first note in the tuplet musical expression.  It seems there is 
president for this approach (although I am to new to remember where I saw 
it...).  In that case it would probably pick the first example.

Jonathan