"Compound" meter

Dan Eble <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Would anyone here who teaches music in the English language encourage me 
to rename the NR node "Compound time signatures"?  (Find it under 
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/displaying-rhythms#polymetric-notation 
.)

What I remember being taught is that "compound" refers to meters with 
triplet subdivision, such as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8.  Calling the time 
signatures in that NR section "complex" would make more sense to me, but 
I'm willing to be directed.

The \compoundMeter command is in the same situation, but since \time was 
recently made capable of doing everything that \compoundMeter can do, 
converting \compoundMeter into a mere syntactic simplification of \time, 
I propose renaming \compoundMeter to \timeAbbr.

To clarify for those who haven't been following 2.25 development, these 
now construct the same music expression:

     \compoundMeter #'((2 3 8) (3 4))
     \time #'(((2 3) . 8) (3 . 4))

Thanks,
-- 
Dan
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