Re: How to determine the values in tuplet-definitions

Hi Mogens,

Thanks. Can you please file your tuplet questions as issues on the MNX
repository? I will respond there in more detail.

I think you are raising at least two issues:

- "actual" and "normal" are confusing terms (personally, I agree)
- are the denominators in tuplets meaningful? (yes, they are intended to
be: 6/16 is not the same notationally as 3/8, or as 1/4* (a dotted quarter)

Best,


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On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:38 PM, mogens@lundholm.org <mogens@lundholm.org>
wrote:

> Working with MNX - first attempt:
>
> Tried to dump data from my internal data structure as MNX-code. This
> showed up to be a bad idea. Conversion from MusicXML to MNX must be at the
> highest possible level.
>
> But one experience: For a tuple-definition like in MNX Proposal Overview
> of 26 April 2017 (5.3.6. Sequences - <tuplet actual="3/8" normal="1/4">):
> How do you determine the values in the denominators? E.g. in 3/8 and 1/4
> the values 8 and 4? Would 6/16 be the same as 3/8? It seem to me that only
> the ratio counts (ratio=3/2). Also the words "actual" and "normal" seem to
> me to be confusing. I should consider "actual" to mean the real value
> (sounding when played) in the music and not the graphic appearence (but
> this was also the names of MusicXML).
>
> How to determine these values 8 and 4 in like 3/8 and 1/4?
>
> Best regards
> Mogens
>
>
>